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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.
4. To triumph eternally over enemies, the devils, Malignant opposers of his reign▪ sin, and hell is an act of a Mediatory King; when head and members do both triumph▪ no less then it is a part of his royal Mediatory power to crush them all, and make them his foot-stool, Psal. 110. But Christ and the Armies of heaven,1 when the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb shall come, shall ride upon white horses, and triumph over enemies for ever, Rev. 19.7, 13, 14, 15. and the eternal living of Christ in our nature with all his, is a triumphing over the grave, and death▪ 1 Cor. 15. and who can prescribe a period and an end of that triumph?
4. To triumph eternally over enemies, the devils, Malignant opposers of his raign▪ sin, and hell is an act of a Mediatory King; when head and members do both triumph▪ no lesse then it is a part of his royall Mediatory power to crush them all, and make them his foot-stool, Psal. 110. But Christ and the Armies of heaven,1 when the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb shall come, shall ride upon white horses, and triumph over enemies for ever, Rev. 19.7, 13, 14, 15. and the eternall living of Christ in our nature with all his, is a triumphing over the grave, and death▪ 1 Cor. 15. and who can prescribe a period and an end of that triumph?