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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.
4. With him must the Covenant of Redemption be made in his way; of whom God saith, v. 25. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. The Chaldee Paraphrase expounds his hand to be his power and command, which is to Euphrates: as is promised, Exod. 23.31. Num. 34.3. but fulfilled in David and Solomon, 1 King. 4.8. Solomon reigned from the sea of Sodom the red sea, to the Mediterranean sea, and west, and from Euphrates, to the utmost of Canaan, North and South: but specially in Christ, who hath all Nations, Gentiles and Jews, for his own, Psal. 2.8, 9. Psal. 22.27. Psal. 72.8, 9, 10, 11. Isai. 2.1, 2. Rev. 11.15. Christ Jesus, not David, Zech. 9.10. shall speak peace to the Heathen, and his Dominion shall be even from sea to sea, and from the river, even to the ends of the earth. The Angel and Creator of Angels, who set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot upon the earth, Rev. 10.2. is this great Conqueror.
4. With him must the Covenant of Redemption be made in his way; of whom God saith, v. 25. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. The Chalde Paraphrase expounds his hand to be his power and command, which is to Euphrates: as is promised, Exod. 23.31. Num. 34.3. but fulfilled in David and Solomon,