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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Name: The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
Author: 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 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 ...

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655

[16], 368 p. · 159k words · Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 1 › Chapter 4: The Elect non-converted are not under Law-wrath. 2. Faith is no cause of satisfaction.…

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CHAP. IV. The Elect non-converted are not under Law-wrath. 2. Faith is no cause of satisfaction. 3. Christ can not have satisfied for the sins of the Reprobate.

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Whether the Elect unconverted be under wrath is a doubt to many. It is true, they are servants of sin, Rom. 6.17. Blind, and under the power of Satan as Reprobates are, Acts 26.18. By nature children of wrath, even as others, Eph. 2.3. Ans. Their sins committed before their Conversion,¹ are according to the Covenant of Works, such as deserve everlasting condemnation, and they are jure and in relation to that Covenant, heirs of wrath, as well as others. 2. But we must distinguish between a state of election and everlasting, though unseen love, that they are under, as touching their persons: and a state of a sinful way that they are born in, and walk in as others do, until they be converted. As to the former state, it is true which is said, Jer. 31.3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love. See also, Rom. 9.12, 13. Eph. 1.4. so that God never hates their persons. 3. The punishment of their sins and the wrath they are under is two ways considered. 1. Materially in the bulk, and so they are under Law-strokes and Law-wrath, that is Law-punishment, as others are, Eph. 2.3. and so the other places are to be taken. 2. The wrath is to be considered formally, and so it is denied that the punishment of the non-converted elect, because of their sinful way is any part of the Law-vengeance or curse which Christ did bear for their other sins committed by them after conversion. 1. Because when Christ

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661

Place

Edinburgh

Printer

Andro Anderson

Bookseller

Robert Brown

Year

1655

Size

[16], 368 p.

Words

158,620

Catalogue

Wing R2374 · ESTC R20879

Text

EEBO-TCP A57966

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902

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The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

CHAP. IV. The Elect non-converted are not under Law-wrath. 2. Faith is no cause of satisfaction. 3. Christ can not have satisfied for the sins of the Reprobate.

CHAP. V. God intended a Law-dispensation but for a time. 2. Adam, how he was ordained for a Law-life. 3. How predestinated to Glory in Christ, how not. 4. That the Heathens have no more Universal Grace then Devils. 5. No ground for such grace.

CHAP. V. God intended a Law-dispensation but for a time. 2. Adam, how he was ordained for a Law-life. 3. How predestinated to Glory in Christ, how not. 4. That the Heathens have no more Universall Grace then Devils. 5. No ground for such grace.

CHAP. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denial required in sinless nature, as in sinful. 5. Man considered three ways.

CHAP. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denyall required in sinlesse nature, as in sinfull. 5. Man considered three wayes.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. IV. The Elect non-converted are not under Law-wrath. 2. Faith is no cause of satisfaction. 3. Christ can not have satisfied for the sins of the Reprobate.

CHAP. V. God intended a Law-dispensation but for a time. 2. Adam, how he was ordained for a Law-life. 3. How predestinated to Glory in Christ, how not. 4. That the Heathens have no more Universal Grace then Devils. 5. No ground for such grace.

CHAP. V. God intended a Law-dispensation but for a time. 2. Adam, how he was ordained for a Law-life. 3. How predestinated to Glory in Christ, how not. 4. That the Heathens have no more Universall Grace then Devils. 5. No ground for such grace.

CHAP. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denial required in sinless nature, as in sinful. 5. Man considered three ways.

CHAP. VI. It was condescension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Temptations in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denyall required in sinlesse nature, as in sinfull. 5. Man considered three wayes.

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