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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.
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. Deut. 28.15, 16, 17, &c. our rods are Covenanted mercies in the compact between the Lord and Christ, and written in the Gospel-book of the Covenant of Grace.
- 1Rods in mercy are Covenanted to us.
10. All the promises of the Gospel, are first (as it were) promised to Christ; the Gospel is put over in his hand. Jesus is the Angel, Rev. 10.1. ch•a•hed with a Cloud, and a Rain-bow on his head. v. 2. And hath in his hand a little book open; the Testament, ⟨p. 354⟩and the book of all the promises to dispense them to such as the Father hath given to him, to give his Spirit to his own, to intercede and advocate for them, to ratify and seal them with his blood.