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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.
This ground being laid down, the Holy Ghost speaks of the New Covenant two ways in Scripture▪
This ground being laid down, the Holy Ghost speaks of the New Covenant two wayes in Scripture▪
1. According to the approving will of God, as it stands, of promises, precepts, threatenings; and shows both what God doth by promises, and what we are obliged to do in point of duty, Act. 2.39. The promise is to you and to your children. Act. 3.25. Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with our fathers. 2 Cor. 6.17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, — And I will be a Father to you, &c. This is the whole New Covenant, holding out our duty, ordaining those that profess, to be baptized, received members of the Visible Church, the body to be edified as a visibly Covenanted people: This excludes not, but includes the Lords taking in members to the invisible and mystical body: which is to be observed against Anabaptists and Antinomians.
1. According to the approving will of God, as it stands, of promises, precepts, threatnings; and showes both what God doth by promises, and what we are oblidged to do in point of duty, Act. 2.39. The promise is to you and to your children. Act. 3.25. Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with our fathers. 2 Cor. 6.17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, — And I will be a Father to you, &c. This is the whole New Covenant, holding out our duty, ordaining those that professe, to be baptized, received members of the Visible Church, the body to be edified as a visibly Covenanted people: This excludes not, but includes the Lords taking in members to the invisible and mysticall body: which is to be observed against Anabaptists and Antinomians.