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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.
But that Christ shall leave off to be Mediatory King after the last Judgement, I deny. For there is a twofold Mediation, one,1 of uniting sinners to God, and mediating between God and them. This shall cease, and all the royal acts thereof, but these, with reverence, […] second operations and acts of royalty. There is another Mediation substantial, by which our natures glorified, stand in a substantial union with God for ever▪ for to what end shall Christ stand glorified in our nature in heaven, but to be the substantial […] between […] and us, glorified for ever? If any say that Christ-God-Man after that day is no Mediator of reconciliation,2 because there shall be no sin then: Its true▪ Nay, but even now in the interval between his ascension and second appearing to Judge the world, he acts not as Mediator of reconciliation to expiate our sins, and to satisfy for them, for only he did upon the cross by dying for us, so mediate. And we will not say he is acting ⟨p. 366⟩the part of a Priest formally by sacrificing for us in heaven,3 as Socinians teach: for he can offer no expiatory sacrifice for us in heaven, for he died but once, & that was on the earth only. Obj. But now he Advocates for sinners, 1 Joh. 2.1. therefore as now in heaven glorified, he is a Mediator for sinners. Ans. True, he is a Mediator and Intercessor now, applicatione, non expiatione, by applying his blood, but not by shedding of it: And he is an Advocate, but called, [Greek or Hebrew], Jesus the Righteous, and an Advocate as just and righteous, supposeth a right and just cause, and that sufficient satisfaction and payment is given to God for the sins of these for whom Christ intercedes; the Advocation of Christ is not to plead that believers may sin,4 or their sins may be excused as no sins: But his intercession is to plead, 1. that for his blood we may stand as accepted of God, and freed from condemnation. 2. That the Spirit procured by the death of Christ, may be given to us, that we may repent and believe.