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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the sovereignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...
Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655
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2. It is necessary that the promises that are our Writs and Charters▪ of Heaven be in a surer hand then in our own, to wit, in the keeping of Christ: For this is an absolute promise made to us, Ezek. 36.26. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh. This promise is not formally made to Christ, yet it is a special Covenant-promise, Jer. 31. Ezek. 11. Heb. 8. for there is no stony heart in Christ, yet the promise is laid down in him, and made ⟨p. 317⟩to him, eminenter; for by the merit of his blood (for he sanctified the people with his own blood, Heb. 13.12.) he sprinkles many Nations, Isai. 52.15. Some say, as Calvin, Luther, Musculus, by the Preached Gospel: But it is clear, he alludeth to the Law of sprinkling, Exod. 24.8. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you, concerning all these words. Now of that blood it is said, Exod. 24.6. And Moses took half of the blood (of the oxen that the young men of the children of Israel offered, v. 5.) and put it in basins, 1and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 1. The half of the blood was divided betwixt the altar and the people, to note. (say the English Divines) the mutual stipulation of God (of Christ God the true Altar) to his people, and his people to him, who were atoned and made one by the blood of Christ, v. 7. (2.) Moses took the book of the Covenant, and red it in the audience of the people: Not the Book of the Covenant of the ten Commandments for Moses had not as yet brought the two Tables of Stone containing the ten Commandments, down from the mountain. Then it was the Book of the Judicial Laws and Promises,