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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.
CHAP. XI. Of the promises made to Christ in the Covenant of Mediation, not to Christ-God, but to Christ God and Man the Mediator, and these of twelve sorts.
TO Christ-God promises of reward cannot be made, nor can Christ-God suffer, but they are made to the Person God-Man, for the encouraging of the Man Christ, and he encourages himself therewith, Isa. 50.7, 8. Christ-Man lived the life of faith by depending upon God for the joy set before him, and therefore did run, Heb. 1•. our life should be sweeter, should we fetch all our comforts and actings from his influences by the faith of daily dependency. Faith here promises to it self good, Isa. 26.12. Is. 30.31. Ps. 118.10, 11. Ps. 16.9, 10, 11.
TO Christ-God promises of reward cannot be made, nor can Christ-God suffer, but they are made to the Person God-Man, for the incouraging of the Man Christ, and he incourages himself therewith, Isa. 50.7, 8. Christ-Man lived the life of faith by depending upon God for the joy set before him, and therefore did run, Heb. 1•. our life should be sweeter, should we fetch all our comforts and actings from his influences by the faith of daily dependency. Faith here promises to it self good, Isa. 26.12. Is. 30.31.