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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.
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.
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 interceed and advocate for them, to ratifie and seal them with his blood.
11. There is promised to him an head-ship, and power of judgment,1 over man and Angels, with an oath, that to him all knees shall bow, Rom. 14.11. Isa. 45.23.