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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 it were unjustice in the Lord (with reverence and glory to his Holiness) to deny to Christ that for which he hath given a condign ransom and price: But he hath payed a condign Covenant•ransone of his own precious self, and offered blood for h•s seed. Hence 1. though a weak believer cannot by merit suit a bowed will and a circumcised heart from the Lord: Yet 1. may be suit it by the band of the Covenant of Redemption between Jehovah and the Son: and a Redeemed one may say, it was an Article of the Covenant of Redemption, that my stony heart should be taken away, and a heart of flesh given to me, and faith hath influence to be supported that God articled Covenant-ways such a ⟨p. 331⟩wretch as I am, to Christ: and look, as the book of life, called, the Lambs Book of Life; contains so many by name, head, and in all their individual properties, Jacob, Paul, &c. that are written and enrolled for glory, so are all (and I by name) in a Covenant-relation given of the Father to the Son, Joh. 17.3, 9.11. Joh. 6.39. and that is surer then heaven or the fixed ordinances of nature, Jer. 31.35, 36. Psal. 89.37, 38. Happy such as can ride at this anchor: Though I mean not that the decree of election and the roll of the Mediator to me, or the gracious Surety•Covenant between Jehovah and the Son, as relating to me by name, must be the nearest object of faith, or that always a believer doth read this roll; but his faith often is, and ought, and may be supported thereby.
and it were unjustice in the Lord (with reverence and glory to his Holines) to deny to Christ that for which he hath given a condign ransone and price: But he hath payed a condign Covenant•ransone of his own precious self, and offered blood for h•s seed. Hence 1. though a weak beleever cannot by merit suit a bowed will and a circumcised heart from the Lord: Yet 1. may be suit it by the band of the Covenant of Redemption between Jehovah and the Son: and a Redeemed one may say, it was an Article of the Covenant of Redemption, that my stony heart should be taken away, and a heart of flesh given to me, and faith hath influence to be supported that God articled Covenant-ways such a