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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.
As to the first: Nothing could compel, nothing could hire Christ for eternity to engage his Name in such a band, since he well knew what it should cost him, how dear it should stand him, and saw what indignity, shame, pain, curse, and all these conditions before him. And what could move the father, since he might have followed the Law-course of Works?
As to the first: Nothing could compell, nothing could hire Christ for eternity to ingadge his Name in such a band, since he well knew what it should cost him, how dear it should stand him, and saw what indignity, shame, pain, curse, and all these conditions before him. And what could move the father, since he might have followed the Law-course of Works?
2. The first draughts▪ of free-grace and the Lords unsearchable riches appears in the sure mercies of David ▪ 1in an everlasting Covenant, Isa. 55.3. and Ps. 89.1. I will sing the mercies of the Lord.— 2. For I have said, mercy shall be built-up for ever: — Why? v. 3. I have made a Covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant. 4. Thy seed will I establish for ever, &c. The giving of the Covenant. 2. The design of a Redeemer. 3. The sending. 4. Anointing. 5. The consenting of Christ. 6. His coming. 7. Dying, are all acts of grace. God was no debtor to the Man Christ, or to any of his kindred and blood-friends, more then he was to David and his seed, but God would act grace in Christ and make him a sampler and the first copy of free-grace to all his brethren, that they might share with him therein. But though he made Christ also a copy of his Justice, Rom. 3.25. and spared not his Son,