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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.
Neither is it much that justice saith that the Surety ought to have satisfaction made to him and restitution by the broken debtor, ⟨p. 323⟩because justice gives his due to every man.1 For 1. if the surety be more then a man, and have absolute sovereignty over what he exp•nds, as Christ hath over his own life, to lay it down, and take it up again, Joh. 10.18. As of free grace he payed for us, so of free grace he pleads not in Law that the broken man pay him back, and make restitution of his losses: and this saith demonstratively that God doth neither punish, nor show mercy, by necessity of justice. 2. When the surety hath a band of relief, and as it were, a back-band, that his soul shall not be left in grave, Psal. 16.10. but that he shall be victorious and more, he may give out,2 and look for nothing in again.
Neither is it much that justice saith that the Surety ought to have satisfaction made to him and restitution by the broken debter, ⟨p. 323⟩because justice gives his due to every man.1 For 1. if the surety be more then a man, and have absolute soveraignty over what he exp•nds, as Christ hath over his own life, to lay it down, and take it up again, Joh. 10.18. As of free grace he payed for us, so of free grace he pleads not in Law that the broken man pay him back, and make restitution of his losses: and this saith demonstratively that God doth neither punish, nor show mercy, by necessity of justice. 2. When the surety hath a band of relief, and as it were, a back-band, that his soul shall not be left in grave,