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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.
Obj. But Arminius himself also teacheth,1 that there was • Covenant betwixt the Lord and Christ. God required of Christ our Priest, that he would lay down his life for sin, give his flesh for the life of the world, — and he promised, if he should so do, he should see his seed, and be an eternal high Priest after the order of Melchizedek, and by the exercise of his Priestly Office, he should be exalted to a royal dignity. Christ our Priest closed with the condition, and said, Behold, here am I to do thy will, &c. And Socinians, who hold him to be a divine Man only, will agree that Christ was under an obediential Covenant to God.2
Obj. But Arminius himself also teacheth,1 that there was • Covenant betwixt the Lord and Christ. God required of Christ our Priest, that he would lay down his life for sin, give his flesh for the life of the world, — and he promised, if he should so do, he should see his seed, and be an eternall high Priest after the order of Melchisedeck, and by the exercise of his Priestly Office, he should be exalted to a royall dignity. Christ our Priest closed with the condition, and said, Behold, here am I to do thy will, &c. And Socinians, who hold him to be a divine Man only, will agree that Christ was under an obedientiall Covenant to God.2
- 1Jac. Armi. orat. de Sacerdotio Chrsti, pag. 16, 17. Postulavit Deus ut animam suam poneret hostiam pro peccato, &c.
- 2The Covenant between the Lord and the Sonne, that Arminius teacheth, is not the true Covenant of redemption.