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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.
And the necessity of a surety to say, remove the scaffold, the guilty man shall not die, pleads, that if the Lord shall be merciful to sinners, as he decreed, then must Christ transact so with God, 1as the everlasting out-goings of mercy, may be with the free consent (as it were) of truth, and righteousness.
And the necessity of a surety to say, remove the scaffold, the guilty man shall not die, pleads, that if the Lord shall be merciful to sinners, as he decreed, then must Christ transact so with God, 1as the everlasting out-goings of mercy, may be with the free consent (as it were) of truth, and righteousnesse.
- 1Ulpianus L. S. quis reum. D. cust & exhib. reorum. Vale. Maximus de Dionysior. Siculo tametsi debita tot sacrilegii• supplicia non exolvit, dedecore tamen filli poenas rependit, quas vivus effugerat.Vlpianus L. S. quis reum. D. cust & exhib. reorum. Vale. Maximus de Dionysior. Siculo tametsi debita tot sacrilegii• supplicia non exolvit, dedecore tamen filli poenas rependit, quas vivus effugerat.
But it may be said, if Christs dying for sinners remove as a satisfactory punishment, the guilt and obligation to eternal wrath, what way is the real, and as it were, the physical inherency and essence of sin removed? Ans. The obligation to wrath is removed only in a legal way by suffering of punishment due to sin,1 which Christ hath done; But the essence real of sin is only removed, as every other contrary is removed, by the expelling of sin out of its subject, and by introducing the contrary form, to wit, inherent righteousness, and the perfect habit of Sanctification and holiness. Now for this, Christs dying and suffering wrath due to us, suppose Christ should die a thousand thousand times for us, his dying cannot as a satisfying cause, or as a punishment remove this. For 1. a punishment suffered by our Surety can but exhaust and remove the punishment due to the sinner for whom the suretyship is undertaken. But 2. Christs dying cannot as a punishment remove