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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.
What an untoward Government of the world is it, that God should suffer Angels and Men to sin, and overturn the whole fabric of Heaven and earth by sin? Nay, he hath by their fall brought in a more glorious order, When he that sitteth upon the Throne, saith, Behold ⟨p. 343⟩I make all things new, Rev. 21.5. and its said, 2 Pet. 3.13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new Heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. 1Peter and the Disciples were to pray that they should not enter into temptation, Mat. 26.41. and were obliged not to be offended and scattered by the sufferings of the Lord; but they were not to blame and grudgingly to judge that holy decree Prophesied by Zechariah, and revealed to themselves, Zech. 13.7. Mat. 26.31. I will smite the Shepherd, and the Sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. His part is clean and holy, even when he throws the wicked in hell, and they are obliged to sing the Psalm of the glory of his spotless Justice, and that eternally, as these who are before the Throne are to hold up, for all ages, the new song of the glory of his mercy and free-grace.
What an untoward Government of the world is it, that God should suffer Angels and Men to sin, and overturn the whole fabrick of Heaven and earth by sin? Nay, he hath by their fall brought in a more glorious order, When he that sitteth upon the Throne, saith, Behold ⟨p. 343⟩I make all things new, Rev. 21.5. and its said, 2 Pet. 3.13