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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
Part 2 › Chapter 12: The condition and Properties of the Covenant of Redemption.
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. XII. The condition and Properties of the Covenant of Redemption.
Q. What need is there of any condition to be performed by Christ, or of any Covenant?1 Ans. The same Question may be of the need of an oath to Christ, Psal. 110. The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a Priest, &c. 2. The same necessity, in regard of infinite wisdom that our Redeemer should be obedient to the death of the Cross, Phil. 2.8. and be under the Law, Gal. 4.4. and keep his Fathers Commandments, and abide in his love, Joh. 15.10. requires also a Covenant of obedience upon the part of Christ-Man; for all men being born under ⟨p. 356⟩the Law and Covenant of Works, Christ-Man also must be under the same. And then Christ the Mediator was to give obedience to a particular Commandment of laying down his life for sinners, and this required an engagement by way of Covenant, and so a condition of obedience to perform what this peculiar Law of Suretyship required of him, to wit, to lay down his life.
Q. WHat need is there of any condition to be performed by Christ, or of any Covenant?1 Ans. The same Question may be of the need of an oath to Christ,