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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.
8. There is a promise of glory,1 of a Name above all names made to Christ for his sufferings, Psal. 16.9, 10, 11. Isa. 53.12. Act. 5.31. and to such as suffer with him, and overcome, Luk. 22.29, 30. Rev. 3.21. Rev. 2.10. As also, he shall bear all the glory of his Fathers house, Isa. 22. Zech. 7.13.
- 1A promise of glory is made to Christ.
9. The Lord promiseth forbearing mercy to the children of Christ, if they sin, he will correct them in measure, and in a Fatherly way give them repentance, but not remove the Covenant-mercy.1 So hath the Lord Covenanted and articled in the writ with his Son, a rod to children, to difference them from bastards, Heb. •2. And •e that hath hi• fire in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem, writes this up as a Covenant-mercy, that he will not suffer them to perish with the world. Hence, the rods of the wicked stand booked in the Covenant of Works among the curses of the book of the Law, Lev. 6.