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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nor is this Suretyship just in debts only, but also what ever Socinus, Crellius, and others say on the contrary, in Capital punishments. For M. Thomas Goodwin, 1pag. 50. E•oritus did ([Greek or Hebrew]) willingly become a surety for Suephenus. Yea, and in hostages and pledges in war, Plutarch saith▪ that the Thessali•ns slew two hundred and fifty hostages. The Romans (saith Livy) did the like to three hundred of the Volsti ▪ and cast the Taratines over rocks, de […] Tarp•i•: and these were humane people. The children of Tyrants were killed with the Tyrants, by some Cities of Greece, as Cicero, and Halicarnassus say. Curtius saith, that the Macedonians put to death such as were near of blood to traitors: Marcellinus saith so much also of the Persians. The just Lord punishing the sins of the fathers upon the children, 2to the third and fourth generation, •eacheth▪ that conjunction of blood (such as was between Christ our Kinsman. [Greek or Hebrew] Job 19.25. and us) may well make it most just, that Christ be punished for us, the Surety for the sinner, though the sinner be under the hand of the Judge; for he is unable to satisfy Justice,3 and mercy saith that there is no essential reason in Law-justice why the same head which sinned and no other should suffer. But grace may intervene, so that though God need no surety, yet tender mercy, or God decreeing to show mercy, in some good sense, needs such a Surety as Christ.
Nor is this Suretyship just in debts only, but also what ever Socinus, Crellius, and others say on the contrair, in Capitall punishments. For M. Thomas Goodwine, 1