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A57966	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 ...	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1655 (1655)	Wing R2374; ESTC R20879	369,430	394

as he is also the Author of this Covenant as God Exod. 3.6 It was he who said I am the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. 1 Cor. 10.9 Let us not tempt Christ as some of them tempted him and were destroyed of the Serpents And this is he who led them and brought them out of Aegypt Numb 21.6 7. whom they tempted in the wildernesse 5 6 7. And he ascribes to himself the Covenant Heb. 8.9 Not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers c. And it is clear that the pardon of sin promised in the Covenant Jer. 31. Heb. 8. is never ascribed to the blood of Martyrs but every where to Christs blood Eph. 1.7 Col. 1.14 Rom. 3.25 Rev. 1.5 1 Joh. 1.8 Heb. 9.14.14 15 22. Heb. 10.16 17 18. 2. That he is the Surety also of the Covenant is expresly said Heb. 7.22 and the Mediator thereof Heb. 8. Nor can it be said that the death of the Testator does properly give faith and authority to the Testament for the authority and justice of the just or unjust will of the Testator addeth unto or diminisheth from the authority of the Testament for the Testators will is the principal efficient cause of the Testament the death of the man is only a necessary condition by which the right of the Testator to these goods is transferred from him who now being dead needs them not in to friends to whom they are left in Legacie and so death is but an antecedent condition of the right to the goods 3. Christs dying to bear witnesse to his own Gospel is only the secondary end of his death in so far as secondarily remission of sins is made known to us after the principall end of his death to wit reconciliation remission pardon redemption and life is purchased to us by way of merit And sure the truth of pardon and redemption is hugely more confirmed and sealed by the whole company of the Martyrs and made known to the sons of men then by the death of one single man Maries Son Nor does the Scripture ever commend Christs love to us in sealing the Gospel with his blood as the only way to life or making this the most strong Argument to move us to beleeve in God and obey Christ because Christ died for sinners and rose again to make the Gospel true like and worthy to be beleeved as the Martyres do but love shined in this that in dying we have redemption and forgivenesse and life in his blood And since Godly and sound beleeving Martyrs died for this end especially to glorifie God and seal the truth Joh. 21.19 Rev. 2.13 Mat. 10.32 Luk. 12.8 Mar. 8.38 Luk. 9.26 2 Tim. 2.12 Rev. 12. ●1 we must have most properly forgivenesse of sins in the blood of S●even and Antipas and the rest of the Martyres And miracles do aboundantly seal the truth of the Gospel And so doth the holinesse of profession Joh. 20.32 Mar. 16.20 Joh. 5.35 36. Matth. 5.16 but never are we redeemed justified saved by Christs and the Apostles miracles and holy life for any thing we read in Scripture but we have life by Christs blood as by a ransome a price to buy us Q. Hence 1. case May not the conscience be quiet by the way of Socinus which lays aside a ransome given to Justice Ans. The experience of the Godly man wakened in conscience saith to this when he is chastened with pain in his bed and the multitude of his bones with strong pain and the mans soul drawes ●ear to the g●ave and his life unto the destroyers and the man stands on need of an Interpreter one among a thousand to shew unto man his righteousnesse Job 33.19 20 21 22 23. Then God is gracious to him and saith deliver him from going down to the pit I have found him a ransome He is not quiet while God say my Prophet deliver him from hell and the pit which he so much fears for my offended Justice hath found a ransome in Christ and I am 〈◊〉 with him Yea and the conscience must be purged from 〈◊〉 works by his blood who offered himself without spot to God through the eternall Spirit Heb. 9.14 Yea and there is no remission of sins without sheding of blood v. 22. Not of Buls or Goats for the blood of beasts leaves still conscience of sin Heb. 10.1 2. Then it must be the blood of Christ v. 5.10 who was crucified and made a curse for us Gal. 3.10 such a curse as we must have eternally according to Divine Justice suffered Yea if works done by the exemplary grace of a Martyr such a holy man as Christ who was never wounded for our transgressions nor bruised for our iniquities then Christ died in vain and there was no ransome of blood given for our sins only God of free-will made an innocent man a curse and would have him crucified neither for his own sin nor for ours well then may good works without the blood of sinner or surety take away sin And the conscience sprinkled with good works may well calm a guilty conscience yea and according to the measure of good works is the measure of assurance of peace with God Now we see the most tender David Job Hezekiah Heman who walked most with God have not alway most assurance of peace and righteousnesse with God but most dreadfull doubtings of conscience according as by faith they apprehend the ransome of full satisfaction or were dazled and darkened in their apprehension yea sure without the ransome of blood of free-will all receive a dry and unbloody pardon by doing the Commandements of Jesus Christ. The Socinian faith which looks to an exemplary Martyr whom God of no justice but in vain and for no cause delivered to death but of meer free pleasure whereas there might be and is forgivenesse without shedding of blood contrair to Heb. 9.22 Rom. 3.24.25 c. even good works done in imitation of Christ. Q. 2. Another case is here Is Christ on our side of the Covenant and on the Lords side This would seem no satisfying of justice Ans. It is true the case would seem no quieting of conscience If 1. Christ-God were not the same offended God who out of soveraignty of free grace doth condescend to make a Covenant of grace and so is upon Gods side 2. If Christ were not a Person different from offended God as the Godhead is common to all the three so in a voluntary and admirable dispensation and Oeconomie the Kings Son a Person different from the Father taketh upon him our nature And 3. having mans nature which offended and so being fit therein to satisfie wrath and fit therein to merit to sanctifie the people with his own blood might well be upon our side and there 's no scenick no seeming but a most reall satisfaction here in that there is a most full and reall compensation made to offended justice and our faith laying hold on

suspendio vita se exuit Nequaquam aegre fero inquit Socrates nam in Theatro veluti in magno convivio verbis vexor 9. Deadnesse to an office or a place of authority 10. Deadnesse to pleasure 11. Deadnesse to all the world 12. Mortification to creature-comforts to multitude friends hosts armies chariots horse father son daughter husband to city to our mother-countrey c. 13. A deadnes to Captains stoutnesse and valour in warre to birth 14. A deadnes to youth pastime play laughter to hunger fulness 15. A deadnes to Ordinances There be two●things in Ordin●nces 16. Deadnesse to prayer 17. To faith and hope we pray to our owne prayers 18. Deadnesse to cōforts and feeling How farre we may be taken with feeling 19. Deadnesse to the habit stock of created grace 20. Deadnesse to the sweetnes of heaven 21. To the promises M. Isaac Ambrose prima media ultima life of fa●th c. 9. Sect. 2. pa. 2●1 22. Deadnesse to the out-shinings of God to take aright absence presence 23. Deadnes to fair providences of court Godly Princes miracles 24. To saplesse wil-worship Q. 1. How is CHRIST given as a Covenant of the people Is 49 6 Socinus de Servato l. 2. c. 16. Christ is not the cōfirmer only but the Author of the Covenant of grace The death of the Testator how it confirms the Covenant It is true that the death of the Testator to wit such a death of one who is more then a Testator or only man even God man procu●es as a meritorious cause life remission c but this it does not as the death of a Testator and dying friend but as such a so excellent so satisfactory a death which no Martyrs death can do There is a far other thing in Christs blood then power of sealing and witnessing the truth which is in the Martyrs blood The Socinian way quiets not the wa●ened conscience by mā● works but by the blood of Christ apprehended by faith this is done Christ is upon both the Lords side of the Covenant upon our side the satisfactiō i● most 〈◊〉 Justice as justice seeks satisfactiō but Soveraignty of free-grace not justice determines how and who shall pay Justice is not the mediating and interposing attribute but free-grace Our glory was work and wadge to Christ but of free grace to us we bought it not Deep reasons in the depth of unsearchable wisedom why the Lord who can hinder sin to enter in the world thought fit it should be None sick speaks no Saviour no such Physitiā as Christ It is a deep of wisedom that the same men that now are fire-wood eternally in the lake of brimstone might have been if so it had pleased GOD proclaimers of the glory of his grace in heaven the now heirs of glory in their place God might have hol●en up the law●dispensation for ever but then there should have been no place for the Ark of glory J. Ch. The Gospel-wōders of grace should not eternallie have been bi● Whether of the two be most excellent Law-innocency or Gospel-repentance Christ Man must be in Covenant with God Arg. 1. For the Covenant of redemption becaus Christ c●lls the LORD his God 2. Arg. From the Lords calling of his Son to his Office 3. Arg. Christ his offering of his service to GOD proves this Covenant 4 Arg. The Fathers giving of the elect to Christ to be redeemed and the Son his willing receiving of thē proves this Covenant The persons being given of the Father to the Son speaks strong consolation it s no consolation at all to depend upon free-will 5. Arg. Christs receiving of the Seals of the Old New Covenant proves that there is such a Covenant Why Christ received the Seals 6. Arg. God might have followed a Law-way with al flesh not have sent his Son the Son might have refused to be sent 〈◊〉 Ergo by compact Christ came 7. Arg. All the promises how they are made to Christ. Christ is he who made the promises and the Covenant CHRIST is an ingadged Suretie for the standing of a weak believer 8. Arg. From the promises concerning Christ. 9 Arg. Christ is bidden aske a people frō God the Lord promiseth that he will hear 10. Arg. The relatiō of Christs working for wages and the Lords paying him his wages does prove this Covenant A design of love in the heart of Christ toward low man as his alme end 11. Arg. The Lords Oath ●o Christ when he is made Priest and King provs this Covenant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHRIST is a sworn Priest and Intercessour for the hour of temptation The most sweet providence of God in designing a Physician to us before we be sick Armin. de Sacerdatio Chri. pag. 14 15. The harmony of the Attributes of God in the declaration of mercy truth justice c. is sweetly made out by this Covenant The sending of the Spirit and the Spirit his free consent to come is not a proper Covenant Gods love in acting for man in time Paul Bayne Comm. on Eph. 1. v. 4. The Lord choosed us not in Christ because he saw us in him by faith The mutuall delights of love between the Father and the Son in their thoughts of the Covenant-love to man Ambros. hexa l. 6. c. 16. Deus fecit Coelum non lego quod requierit fecit terram nec lego quod sic requieverit fecit solem lunam stellas nec ibi lego quod requieverit lego quod fecit hominem quod tunc requieverit Bernard Serm. 64. in Cant. Quid violentius triumphat de Deo Bernard hom ● Super missus est videas si attendas in Christo tristari laetitiam pavere fiduciam salutem pa●i vitam mori fortitudinem infirmari The strength of Gods love to man which we too little value No lesse everlasting love could save us There are different parties in Covenant of Redemption and Reconciliation Help layed upon Christ The Covenant of Redemption most to be eyed Two parts of the Covenant of Redemption one before time another in time How seasonable and timous the Covenant of Reconciliation was the Physick the Physic●an came both in time to the sicknesse 4. Differ The Covenants do differ in the matter work and wages 5. The Covenant of suretyship differeth from the Covenant of Reconc●liation in cōmands 2. Promises 3. And conditions CHRISTS emptying himself was no act of obedience but a most voluntary free act beyond all obligation CHRISTS Covenant helps our Covenant he hath a place in our Covenant How the promise is made unto Christ Gal. 3. v. 16. Da. Pareus Comm. in Gala. 3.16 Hoc semen in quo benedicentur omnes Gentes Aposto●lus interpretatus erat non collective de multis vel omnibus Abraham● posteris sed individue de uno Christo ● quo non ●am corporalis quam spiritualis benedicto hoc est justitia

this the conscience is quieted As I sinned in the first Adam legally so I satisfied in the second Adam Obj. But justice saith The same person that sinned the same must suffer and satisfie and no other Ans. Justice saith so but that part of justice by the graciousnesse and mercifulnesse of the Just●God is and may be dispensed withall So as Justice as Justice seeks payment the Creditor as the Creditor seeks recompence and restitution But by whom Justice determines not whether payment and satisfaction be made by the same very person who offended or by a fit surety in the person and place of the offender as it determines not whether as much or far more be restored then was taken away so there be a compact and voluntary agreement between the satisfier and the satisfied Hence Justice being 1. offended is not to speak so the interposing and the mediating attribute of God but Soveraignty of Free-grace and mercy interposeth 2. Justice may seek payment from the only offending partie and from no other from Adam and his posterity only but Justice doth not indispensably and by necessity of nature exact payment from the only offender and from no other 3. The conscience of the beleever may with sweetnesse of admiration and peace rest upon satisfied justice and adore interposing grace and be quickened from looking unto and loving interposing grace to obey and take on the labour of Gospel-love to run the wayes of his Commandements 4. It is not an act of Law nor of Justice to give or find out a satisfier but an act of love grace and infinite wisedom Q. 3. A third case is how can the beleever look upon life eternall as a gift if it be sold at so condign a price as Christs blood Ans. It is not fit to speak of this mysterie but with holy reverence life eternall is bought to us and we are said to be bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.19 1 Pet. 1.18 1 Tim. 2.6 Matth. 20.28 Now it is unworthy of Christ that the fruit of his death should be only grace not glory and such a grace as is lubrick uncertain renders us indifferent but much weaker to beleeve or not believe that is as Socinians say to earne and win the wager of Glory by a new Gospel-working which is our righteousnesse and merit to glory For sure Pagans are more sinfully weak in the Second ADAM who died for them as Socinus will then mankind were in the first Adam The Scripture saith that Christ gave himself for his Church that he might present her a glorious Church Eph. 5. 25.27 1 Thes. 5.9 For God hath not appointed us for wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. 10. Who died for us 2 Tim. 2.10 Therefore I endure all things for the elects sake that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternall glory Jude 21. Looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ unto eternall life Rev. 5.9 Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood c. Act. 20.28 Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Eph. 1.7 In whom we have redemption through his blood 11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance We are not afraid to call eternall life a fruit of Christs death that is of the merit of his death See Joh. 10.10 11.28 Joh. 3.14 15 16. Q. 4. A fourth case Many stumble some in that God permitted sin to enter which he might have hindered knowing he should be thereby under a necessity either to torment men in hell or torment on earth his most innocent Son Christ Ans. Socinians Arminians yea Pagans and all enemies to Christian Religion are burdened with the same seeming reason For if God or their gods may hinder wickednesse and yet do not hinder it they bring themselves or the true God that they must be necessitated to torment the sinners 2. There be reasons unanswerable why if we yeeld and it is a shame to deny that God is able to hinder sin to enter in the world or that he is not infinitly wise and so that he hath not most weighty reasons why he suffers sin to be As 1. if sin come freely in the world without the will of God either the Lords dominion over sin must be none at all or the creatures dominion of free-will must be dependent upon the dominion of grace and Soveraignty 2. The out-goings of free-grace must eternally be hid if sin had never been As there had been no field for the expressions and blossoms of eternall flourishing revenging justice As also the creatures armes are short and could not reach the eminent degree of manifesting the glory of free-grace and pardoning mercy but the Lord aimed at this And 1. the relation of a Saviour and a sinner of the Physician and the sick must be known Now a Physician hath not relation actuall to all sick all the world over but only to his own patients his own sick ones who by Covenant feeling their danger have laid the weight of life and death of righteousnesse of salvation over upon that one only Saviour and live dyet apply salves medicine only by the direction of this Physician and do receive medicine and recepts from no other 2. Infinite wisedom made choise beside other infinite possible wayes of this only way of redeeming and here glorious Soveraignty shines he wailles out Judas Magus Pharaoh to be fire-wood and coal to the River of fire and brimstone and made so many sinfull peeces of sick brittle clay overgilded with the habit of grace of free righteousnesse of glory to be the eternall harpers and proclaimers of the glory of his grace whereas he might have made these stones and worms for he created Angels and worms and all out of the Mother Nothing by his good pleasure And it must be a wonder of unsearchable Soveraignty that should not for eternity have been concealed such a number of Angels and men whom he set up in the heaven of heavens as heirs of glory to be everlasting Heraulds and Trumpeters to sound out experienced grace and mercy might have been if so it had pleased him lumps of everlasting vengeance in the eternall lack and all that are condemned and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire both devils and men are chips and peeces of beings hewen out of the same rock if so we may speak of that huge and vast Nothing and might have been up before the Throne filling the Chairs and rooms of the now heirs of glory thou beleever might have been in the seat of Iudas scorched in his furnace in hell and Iudas might have had thy Throne and thy Crown up with him eternally who sits on the Throne and with the Lamb. 3. He might have keeped all the sons of men and all the Angels in a sinlesse condition to be courteours to proclaim the glory of Law-goodnesse and of the never broken Covenant of Works