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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.
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3. Its not a condition of indifferency which is required of Christ, such as is required of Adam, 1in which there is a hazard of failing and coming short of the reward. Adams Covenant had both threatenings and promises, and so hath our Covenant of Reconciliation, though in another way: see Psal. 89.30, 31, 32. But the Covenant of Suretyship hath promises most large that are made to Christ: but no threatenings are laid before the Man-Christ that are to be read in the Scripture. There was no hazard nor possibility, in regard of the Personal Union, that Christ could sin: yea, in regard that Christ from the womb was both a Traveller, a Viator and an enjoyer and Comprehensor, and had the Spirit above measure from his birth, as Man he had gifted to him the confirming grace which is now given to the Elect Angels in their Head Christ; And therefore there was somewhat like a condition necessary, and as the members enter to glory through obedience, so also the Covenanted Head, Luk. 24.26. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter in to his glory?
3. Its not a condition of indifferency which is required of Christ, such as is required of Adam, 1in which there is a hazard of failing and coming short of the reward. Adams Covenant had both threatnings and promises, and so hath our Covenant of Reconciliation, though in another way: see Psal. 89.30, 31, 32. But the Covenant of Suretyship hath promises most large that are made to Christ: but no threatnings are laid before the Man-Christ that are to be read in the Scripture. There was no hazard nor possibility, in regard of the Personall Union, that Christ could sin: yea, in regard that Christ from the womb was both a Traveller, a Viator and an enjoyer and Comprehensor, and had the Spirit above measure from his birth, as Man he had gifted to him the confirming grace which is now given to the Elect Angels in their Head Christ; And therefore there was somewhat like a condition necessary, and as the members enter to glory through obedience, so also the Covenanted Head,