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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

spirituall Arguments upon a renewed man as an Argument from a painted feather works upon a child more then an Argument from an inheritance which no doubt will work upon a man come to age and yet neither the one nor the other works upon a renewed mind to remove him off Christ his rock Hence it is 3. that Acts of Omnipotency are used as Morall Arguments also God works in you to will and to do therefore work out your salvation And choosing redeeming calling justifying quickening converting are brought in as causes in Scripture both reall and morall but they work morally on reason where there is an impression of faith and principle of life The Gospel works on an unrenewed man to perswade him almost to be a Christian Ye may perswade a youth to a course and get his word consent and write but because reason is green and young he falls off it again but a man of judgement shall stand to it yet if he be not renewed reason is also green and raw before a spirituall temptation Quest. What are the actings of a mortified man Ans. No actings 2. Slow actings and lent 3. Actings indifferent 4. Closing with contrair providences reproaches work not on mortification to fire the man Psal. 35.12 They speak mischievous things 13. But I as a deaf man heard not David feared to be the reproach of the foolish Such a case though from God would raise a cry in a child of this world Psal. 39.9 I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou did it A mortified man is dead to the voice of men-singers and women-singers and musicall instruments of all sorts Eccles. 2.8 and houses gardens vineyards orchards great possessions cattell treasures gold silver are all as musick to a dead man and repenting Solomon now mortified looks on them as a wise man upon experienced vanitie and vexation of spirit Will he sing and dance at a shadow Except a mad man none will do that 2. If any thing without a child of God work upon him they move him not much Psal. 131.2 Surely I have behaved and quieted my self as a child that is weaned of his mother my soul is even as a weaned child Acts 20.24 None of these things move me I make not much reckoning of bands Peter 1 Pet. 4.12 will have the saints not to think burning quick strange graces motions are quiet slow modest there is not much fire in the spirit of a weaned child A mortified soul is as a sea that hath no winds nor low ebbings nor high spring tides Grace stirres leasurely and lentely toward all things except to God were there ten Paradices offered to it it cryes not a dying mans pulse beats weakly Grace shouts at nothing wonders at and admires nothing weeps slowly laughs slowly sings weakly eats slowly drinks not wantonly feasts and yet trembles and fears whether it be the outward or the inward man David sayes it well Ps. 62.2 He only is my Rock I shall not greatly be moved The beleevers sings and yet he is not wanton and weeps and yet is not sad dies and yet lives is fervent in the cause of God and yet stayed and composed in spirit 3. The actings of mortification are indifferent not fixedly bent upon any thing but God no not upon the Ark and spirituall comforts Weeping David 2 Sam. 16.25 saith to Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City better I want my comfort then the Ark be taken if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation 26. But if he say I have no delight in thee here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him O how sweet when for God Moses can lay down his personall satisfaction in a share of life eternall What if he tramp upon my eternall Crown I should lay it down at his feet and is not this mortification Should he hide his face for eternity from me and I never see him in his manifestations so his glory shine in my everlasting sad desertion there is required an indifferency to all created things without no peremptory and absolute fixednesse of the affection to any good God excepted is good the contrair of this is an ingadging of the heart more then is right to any thing give me children or then I die there should be a contented living without children if God so will love the creature as if ye loved not the Lord would have us hungring for the creature and yet not eagerly desiring and thirsting and yet have a lent and well ordered appetite to drink love the child but let the heart cleave leasurely to the child Plowing and no heart-labouring buying and selling and no heart-ingadging to the bargain is best here 1 Cor. 7. They that have wives should be as if they had none 30. And they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though they possessed not In the acting of affections toward the things of this life as father mother husband wife children houses gain beauty honour and new bought farme there would be a godly distance of the heart from the thing ye do Loving and no loving rejoicing and no rejoicing weeping and no weeping speaks most mortification We cannot do here except sinfully we over-doe and the out-goings of the heart to the creature must be fierie which is childish whereas mortification is a gracious well composed grave temper of the aged in Christ. There is a fire-edge and a fervour or feaver of affections even to spirituall objects that are created at the first conversion for mortification does not so soon begin as the new heart As for God love as one that loves desire and desire and when he hides himself weep as if you weeped so the weeping be terminated upon God not upon his dispensations to quarrell at and censure his wayes but let the out-goings of the heart to God and to Christ loved and longed for be with fire and full strength Cant. 3.1 2 3 4. Cant. 2.5 Ps. 42.1 2 3. Ps. 84.1 2. Joh. 20.13 Luk. 7.38 Rev. 1.17 4. It s mortification to have a heart closing with all providences Phil. 1.21 To me to live is Christ and to die is gain To live is good to die is good because the Lord so wills the Lords giving is to Job praising and the Lords taking away is to Job praising Phil. 4.12 I know both how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need If I die it is good if I live it is good if I be full and rich it is good if I be hungry and poor it is good if David be on the Throne it is good and he sings Psalms if he be chased barefooted and ashes on his

11.20 well because of unbeleef they are broken off Then because the Jewes beleeve in Christ already comed all their children for no fault but for the beleef of their Parents must be cut off 3. Whereas Paul makes it a misery that the Ephesians 2.12 were strangers from the Covenants of promise ●aving no hope and without God without Christ. And Peter that the Gentiles were no people 1 Pet. 2. then that misery lyes upon the Infants of Christians and all within the Visible Church untill they be converted and baptized and the Gospel is no favour to them that they are within the net and in the office house of Grace the Visible Church where the word is Preached to children who are to be taught Gen. 18.19 Deut. 6.7 Exod. 12.26 27. Psal. 78.1 2 3 4.5 6 7. 2 Tim. 3.15 and the Lord reckons it among the favours that hee bestowes not on every Nation but onely on his owne Covenanted Israel that the Word of the Gospel to gather them and their Children Math. 23.37 2 Tim. 3.15 Psal. 78.1 2 3 4 5. and his Statutes and his Judgments are declared and Preached to them Psal. 147.19 20. Deut. 5.1 2 3 4. c. 6.1 2 3 4 6 7. Psal. 81.4 and that the Oracles of God and the promises are committed to them Rom. 3.1 2. Rom. 9.4 the promises and the giving of the Law and the Covenants and the service of God And that this is a special blessing in the New Testament to old and young is clear from Acts 13. when Paul turnes from the blaspheming Jewes to the Gentiles 47. I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth Now this Covenant salvation is Isa. 49.6 I wil give thee to restore the preserved of Israel 8. I will give thee for a Covenant to the people to establish the earth 9. That thou mayest say to the prisoners go forth c. Now if it be said it was indeed a singular priviledge to the Jews but what places of the New Testament make it a Covenant priviledge to the Gentiles and their seed if the Word of the Covenant Preached to the aged under the New Testament can the same wayes by accident be Preached and promises come to the ears of the unbaptised Children now growing to be capable of hearing the Gospel Acts 2.39 2 Tim. 3.15 as to Pagans and such as are no lesse stranges to the Covenant and void of all right by the Covenant made with their Parents then Indians and their children who worship Satan Paul not without a command Preacheth the Word of the Covenant to the discerning Gentiles Acts 13.47 from Isa. 49.6 9 10. must not the fathers have command to speak the Gospel to their children Or doth not the warrand that Parents and Pastors have to take within the Covenant the fathers warrand them to preach the same Covenant to the children where as otherwise the Apostles should have said we have no warrand to offer the Covenant to any or to Preach Christ a given Covenant to any But 1. To such as are come to age 2. Such as are Converts 3. To such as can give signification by confession that they are not onely visible but also invisible and chosen confederates and they should have said all children are now by Christ excluded as prophane Gentiles and heathen from the Covenant of Grace because there can be none say Anabaptists but reall Believers under the New Testament in Covenant with God Yea but the New Testament offers Christ a Covenant in the preached promises alike to fathers and sons Math. 4.16 The people fathers and sons that sate in darknesse saw great light c. Math. 19.43 Therefore I say unto you the Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the froots thereof And is it not a punishment to be deprived of the Kingdome If the Kingdome of God come where the Preached Covenant is Math. 3.2 Math. 12.28 and the Bridegroome among them and so cause of joy Math. 9.15 and the Golden Candlesticks be there and the Son of God walking in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks Rev. 1.20 c. 2.1 sure this is much to children If it be said it is very nothing for children understand nothing of this What then is meant by the Prophecie of the incoming of the Gentiles Psal. 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God 4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me behold Phylistia and Tyre with Aethiopia that man was born there 5. And of Zion i● shall bee said this and that man was born in her 6. The Lord shal count when he writeth up the people that this man was born there And Christ Prophecying of the desolation extends the judgement of a despised Covenant to the children and the house Math. 23.37.38 Luke 19.44 Luke 22.24 how should there be under the New Testament Covenant wrath for the fathers Covenant breaking derived to the children if in their fathers the sucking children brake not the Covenant then they have been in Covenant with their parents especially since a Visible Covenanting by borrowed allusions to altars speaking the language of Canaan offering incense swearing by the Lord is spoken of Egypt and of five that is of many cities of Egypt and of all the Gentiles Esa. 19.18 19 20. 21. Mal. 1.18 and Covenant blessings shall be derived from fathers to children The Lord shall say 25. Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel mine inheritance It must be a narrow blessing of Covenanted Egypt Assyria Israel if it be a blessing of these come to age 2. Professing the faith 3. And baptised How can the Lord say blessed be Egypt and though the whole seed be visibly in Covenant old and young yet it followeth not that therefore every promise that is absolute that is that of a new heart is made to all and every one within the Visible Covenant for it is promised Deut. 30.6 to the Jews and was given to them and undenyably the visible body of the Jews and their seed were the chosen and externally Adopted and Covenanted people of God Deut. 29.10 11 12 13. Deut. 7.6 Deut. 10.19 and the Lord calls them those whom he delivered out of Egypt his people Exod. 3.7 I have seen the affliction of my people Ezek. 37.12 O my people I will open your graves as many as Saul and David did feed whether they have a new heart or not the Lord calls them his people 1 Sam. 9.16.2 2 Sam. 7.8 See Psal. 50.7 Hear O my people Psal. 81.13 Jer. 9.26 and so the Church of Corinth 2 Cor. 16. is called his people and the Kingdomes of the world the Lords Kingdomes in Covenant Rev. 11.15 and there were many of them uncircumcised in heart Jer. 9.26 Isa. 1.10 Amos 9.7 and with many of them God was not well pleased 1 Cor.

an essence that consists in indivisibili and cannot be parted 3. A new heart is a fixed and established heart by Grace it 's a new state not a new transient flash a new heart Deut. 5.27 All that the Lord our God will speak unto thee we will hear but the Lord saith verse 19. O! that there were such a heart in them but it is not in them 4. 1 Sam. 10.9 God gave Saul an other heart then a changed heart is not a new heart a new spirit or a new gift in Jehu is not a new heart It 's not newnesse that makes the heart new but Gods new ingraving Jer. 31.33 5. A heart keeped with all keeping is a new heart Prov. 4.23 both the words note exact diligence in keeping as watchmen and sheepherds with all keeping at all times Psal. 119.119 some pull their hearts to pray and hear but not while the sabbath or under a storme of conscience and the heart is a word in some company not at other times and in other company 6. The heart is new where the affections are all faith as it were and all sanctified reason and zeal is a lump of angry reason and fear a masse of shining reverence and love only soul sicknesse and pure adherence to God the instinct of faith wholly on God as the last and only end 2. The heart is new when the affections are equivocally or at least at the second hand set upon the creature but as nothing can be seen but what either is colour or affected with colour so nothing is fixedly sought after but God he onely feared and served Mat. 4.10 Deut. 10.20 only desired Psal. 73.25 only loved Deut. 10.12 Cant. 3.2 3. the soul sick of love for only only Christ Cant. 2.5 Cant. 5.8 he only trusted in Jer. 17.5 7. Psal. 62.5 1. Nothing is all good and all desirable but God and God in Christ Mat. 19.17 Cant. 5.16 the shadow of the Sun in the fountain is not the reall Sun the stirrings of the pulse of the affections towards the shadowed good of the creature should be lent and like the beating of the pulse of a dying man with a godly contradiction loving and not loving joying and not joying 1 Cor. 7.29 30. mourning and not mourning CHAP. XIX 1. The place of Evangelick works in the New Covenant 2. Possession of glory and right to glory considerably different 3. A twofold right to life 4. We are not justified by Works 5. The place of declarative justification by Works Jam. 2. discussed 6. Faith and Works different 7. Possession of life and right to life cleared 8. Faith and finall believing both commanded in the Law finall unbelief not the sin forbidden in the Gospel onely 9. How life is promised to works Evangelick IT 's a grave and weighty Question to rid marches between the two Covenants in their conditions the one requiring the obedience of Works the other Faith It 's not to be said that for fifeteen hundred years no man did doubt of the necessitie of good Works Paul propones the objections of the Antinomians Shall we sin and continue in sin that Grace may abound Rom. 6.1 this they spake through the occasion of what he taught chap. 5. some have said they are hurtfull because we abuse them some arbitrarie and indifferent because they are not necessary to justification O! what pronnesse in us to suck out of the doctrine of free Grace poyson how kindly to desire there were no Law against treason because the Prince pardons All sin is virtually Atheisme to wish the existence of a Law and so of a just holy and unchangeable God were not and we can hardly believe this And 2. what rising of heart and carnall reason is there against the first acts of providence why and what necessity was there to make a Law to forbid the eating of an Aple God foreseeing that thence should come the ruine and endlesse damnation of all It had been good God had never created such a Tree 2. That the eating thereof had never been forbidden 3. That it had never had such a name as the the tree of knowledge for it deceived Evah 4. That God had not given free-will to Adam 5. That he had given him confirming grace in the first moment of Creation But Observe 1. Satan started first the dispute concerning the equity of the Law and that we are Disciples of and appr●ntises to Satan when we tosse and rackot arguments in our carnall heart-Logick against the holy Law of God Gen. 3.2 and make the heart a ferrie boat to cary messengers and divellish thoughts hither and yonder in questioning the goodnesse of the Law and the acts of providence and therefore it is speaking Grace to close with the sweetnesse not only of the Law written in the heart and these inbred principles of honesty and truth to hurt none to obey God for Satan raised not the first dispute about these but with all the judgements and testimonies of God as David Psal. 119.127 128. vers 86. All thy commandements are faithfull 1 Sam. 12.7 Stand still that I may reason with you of all the righteous acts of the Lord. It s a mind like Christs that hath an heart prejudice at no one command by an other and is sweetly friended with all that God commands Math. 3.15 It becomes us to fulfill all rightenesse and O! how sweet to have no heart quarrell but a sweet stouping of soul unto and an adoring of God in all providences and acts or decrees he hath concluded or done in time or from Eternitie These draw deep in the decree of Reprobation God had an hatefull designe against me 2. The Gospel is an untrue and fabulous dispensation What a spirit is Galaenus who reproacheth Moses because he teacheth not that God works ever and by necessity of nature what is most good for the creature And that Prince who said that if he had been Counsellour to God in the time of the Creation many things should have been created ordinatius melius in a better order and state then they were Let the man be remembred who called the Gospel a fable and the spirits who reproach the Scripture as inkie wisedom 1. A bare dead forme bare flesh c. and weak ones under desertion who feed upon reports and lying news from Satan God hated me before time and carries on a design of eternall ruine to me therefore I have no right to hear to pray to eat to sleep 2. Yet the necessity of good works is asserted by Luther the Augustine Confess and Apol. Arti. 20. docent nostri c. Evangelick works are necessarie not to merite but by the will and commandement of God Calvin calleth them inferiour causes of the possession of our salvation The dispute began upon occasion of the book called Interim Anno M.DLXVIII and in Colloquie at Altenburge Melanthone and the Divines of Wittenberge assented