The Covenant of Life Opened, Title page – Errata
THE COVENANT OF LIFE OPENED: Or, A TREATISE of the COVENANT OF GRACE, Containing something of
And especially of
The nature of the Covenant of Works,
The Soveraignty of GOD,
The extent of the death of CHRIST,
The nature & properties of the Covenant of Grace:
The Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption between the LORD and the Son JESUS CHRIST,
Infants right to JESUS CHRIST, and the Seal of Baptisme:
With some Practicall Questions and Observations.
By SAMUEL RUTHERFURD, Professor of Divinitie in the University of S. Andrews.
ZECH. 6.12.
And speak unto him, saying▪ Thus speaketh the LORD of Hosts, saying, Behold the Man whose Name is the BRANCH, and he shall grow out of his place, and He shall build the Temple of the LORD.
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Even He shall build the Temple of the LORD, and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon His Throne, &c.
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CHRISTIAN READER,
MAny have written, to the edifying of the Godly, of this excellent Subject: Its not much I can do in this, but have added some thoughts to what is said, intending a more Practicall way of the last Points▪ in another Treatise, to wit, of the application of Covenant-Promises, and of the influences of the Spirit under the Covenant of Grace▪ of which, especially of the latter of these two, few have practically written: And it is of much concernment, to make ou… the Union of our Duty and the breathings of the LORD, and what can be done under deadnesse, to either fetch the wind, or to be put in a spirituall condition, that the soul …ay ly fair for the receiving of the influences of GOD. I desire in this to speak for Truth, not either for or against persons of whom I am silent, concealing the names of any Contradicent, judging Truth so much the more desirable, when it may possibly be had with peace, and as little blowing or stirring of the fire of contradiction as can be. What is here said in a way of Disputing, the Moderate Reader, who is not taken with that way, may passe by and read what is practicall. The Author hath been (lest Truth should suffer by him) a little darkned, as report bears, with the name, I know not what, of a Protester, as one who hath deserted the Government and Discipline of the Church of GOD in SCOTLAND; But my humble thoughts are the same they were before: though I can adde nothing to the Truth. I look on these men the world so names Protesters, Schismaticks, Separatists, as sinfull men who stand in need of a Saviour, and as such as desire to fear GOD and love His Name, and would gladly have our practise and walk come a little more near to the Rule of the Gospel, and that our Land might mourn for all the abominations committed therein, which I desire to be spoken without any reflection upon any of the Godly in the Land, who, in that point, are of another Judgement. It is my desire to the LORD, that he would let us hear experienced by the reality of that: Thus saith the LORD, Isa. 65.8.As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants sake, that I may not destroy them all. The LORD JESUS be with your Spirit.
Yours in the Lord Jesus S. R.
Contents of the I. PART.
CHAP. I. and II.
THe four particulars of the Treatise. pag. 1.
Propositions touching ADAMS state. p. 1, 2.
ADAM was predestinate to life eternall in Christ, and how. pag. 2.
CHAP. III.
What is the intent and sense of the threatning, Gen. 2.17. and Gen. 3.20. Dust thou art, &c. p. 3, 4, 5.
Threatnings of the Law reveal what the Law-giver may jure inflict, by justice and Law deserving, not what shall come to passe. p. 4.
Except it be both a threatning and a Prophesie. p. 5.
What is carnall security. ibid.
What Adam was to believe in that threatning. p. 5, 6.
How the promises and the threatnings differ in this. p. 7.
How Law threatnings to the Elect are Evangelick. p. 8.
CHAP. IV.
The Elect before Conversion bear no part of the Law-curse, nor is the Law-curse devided between them and Christ. p. 10.11.
Faith is too near to be made a cause of satisfaction for sin by all who hold that Christ gave a satisfactory ransome for all and every one of mankind. p. 11.
Accepting or not accepting satisfaction is▪ before faith, and so believing or not believing can be no ground of the sufficiencie of the price payed for the Reprobate, or of the laying of the sins of all upon Christ. p. 11, 12, 13▪
God may accept the satisfaction of Christ without any condition required on our part. p. 13.
CHAP. V.
God intended a Law-dispensation, but for a time. 2. Adam how he was ordained for a Law life. 3. How predestinate to Glory, how not. 4. That the heathens have no more universall grace then Divels. 5. No ground for such grace. p. 13, 14, 15.
CHAP. VI.
It was condiscension in the Lord to enter in Covenant with man. 2. Tempt…tions in fearing we are not chosen, discovered. 3. Beings and not-beings are debtors to God. 4. Self denyall required in sinlesse nature, as in sinfull. 5. Man considered three wayes.
How faith layes hold upon conditionall promises, and temptations of unbelief thereabout. p 16, 17.
O… the Covenant of nature. p. 18, 19, 20.
CHAP. VII.
Its not written in the heart of man by nature, that God should promise life Eternall to man, upon condition of obedience. 2. The debt of justice cannot ty God. 3. God punisheth not sin, by necessitie of nature. 4. Nor defends he his own declarative Glory by necessitie of nature. 5. Nothing can be given to God All sufficient. 6. No meriting of the creature. 7. We are to have humble thoughts of free-Grace. 8. Low thoughts of our selves. 9. Promises make no strict justice between the Lord and us. p. 20▪ 21.
God falls in no sort from his naturall dominion, though he impose not penal Laws upon the reasonable creature. p. 25, 26.
God loves his essentiall Glory by necessity of nature, but not his declarative Glory, by any such necessity p. 28, 29▪ 30.
In every Covenant there is some out goings of Grace. p. 35.
The passage 1 Chron. 29.11, 12. cleared, and why none can give to God▪ p. 37, 38.
Our vain boasting of self, my, and such proud pronoumes. p. 39, 40.
How excellent to obey. p. 45.
Sanctified reason is not soft. p. 45, 46.
How near are wee to justification by Works, and to be sick of love for proud (I.) p. 46, 47.
CHAP. VIII.
What place death hath in the Covenant. 2. What Reprobates and the damned are to do. p. 47, 48.
What Adam was to do in the intervall between the fall and the publishing of the Gospel. p. 48.
How the Lord is Adams God. p. 49.
What life is promised in the Covenant of Works. p. 47, 48.
Wilfulnesse of unbelief, Some doubts are to be left to GOD only to solve. p 48, 49.
How the Lord is the God of Adam. p. 49.
No promise of influences is made to Adam. p. 49.
CHAP. IX.
What life is promised in the Covenant of Works. p. 49, 50
Whether or no did Adam and all the Reprobates in him lose all right to the creatures. p. 50, 51.
A threefold right. 1. Naturall. 2. Providentiall. 3. Spirituall. What right Reprobates and unbelievers have to the living, …a…ing▪ &c. p. 53, 54.
What way God is ours. p. 55, 56.
A furniture of Grace, and a want of Christ. p 56.
CHAP. X.
The Arminians ground that God was in a maner compelled to appoint the New Covenant. p. 56, 57.
The naturall antecedent love of God a dream. p 57.
CHAP. XI.
The threefold Covenant of some considered. p. 57, 58.
And of the Arminians, p. 64▪ considered, and rejected. The Law as propounded to Israel was the very Covenant of Grace, p. 60, 61, 62. and the Covenant in the Old one with that of the New Covenant, but differenced …n some accidents. p. 63▪ 64.
CHAP. XII.
Self-searching to know under what Covenant We are, a spirituall condition, and why? p 65, 6….
The threatnings under the New Testament more spirituall. p 67, 68.
What it is to be under the Law. ibid.
The combate between the flesh and the Spirit, and the combate in naturall men differenced. p 68.
Compelled convictions argue a Law Spirit. ibid.
Its easier to be sound in the faith, then to be Godly. p. 69.
Of the legall terrors. ibid.
Of literall and legall convictions and these of the Gospel. p. 70.
Marks of such as are under the Law. p. 70, 71.
A sweetnesse in the hardest command, because holy. ib.
An heaven in duties. p. 71.
A new nature stands for a command. ibid.
CHAP. XIII.
Covenanting externall, visible, professed, conditionall, and Covenanting internall, invisible, reall, absolute, and how they differ. p. 72, 73, 74.
Infants are within the Covenant. p. 73, 74 75, 76.
And to be baptized, and invested with Covenant priviledges. p. 76▪ 77, 78, 79.
Its false that none are in Covenant under the New Testament but converts. ib.
The Covenant made with Abraham and us, the same. p. 80▪ 81.
Nor is that Covenant a civill Covenant. p. 81, 82.
The New Testament Kingdome is spirituall, though there be seals in it and externall worship. p. 82, 83.
Of federall holinesse. ibid.
Externall Church priviledges of the Covenant are given to Nations and societies. p. 83, 84.
Its not the Physicall but the Morall root that is the first subject of the Covenant conditionall, and externall. p 84, 85.
The formall ground of right to Baptisme. p. 85, 86.
The places Acts 8.37. Mark 16.16. opened, and are nothing for, but much against Anabaptists. p. 85, 86.
The text, Acts 2.39. opened, is strong for Infant baptisme. p. 86, 87.
A conditionall Covenant is properly a Covenant, though it be not ever a fulfilled Covenant. p 90▪ 91.
No means are proved, by Law, or Gospel, to save infants by the opposers of infant Baptisme. p 91, 92.
Two diverse considerations of the Covenant, one in abstracto as a simple way of saving sinners, and so all in the Visible Church are in the Covenant; another in concreto, as it contains the Lords will of pleasure, and as it is acted upon the heart, and so the Elect are only in Covenant. p 94.
The new heart is only commanded to some, and to others it is both commanded and promised. p 95.
CHAP. XIV.
The place Gen. 17. opened. p. 95.
Circumcision and Baptisme compared. p 95 96 97.
What blessings and priviledges must infants want, if they be without the Covenant. p 98, 99 100.
The place Mark 10.15, 16. Luke 18. Math. 19. Of such is the Kingdome of heaven, opened. p. 100.101.102.
What blessing Christ bestowed upon the infants, whom hee took in his armes. p. 102, 103, 104.
A Covenanted seed is promised to be added to the Church of the Jews. 104.105
Considerable differences between external and internal Covenanting. 107.108
The place Rom. 11.6. If the root be holy, so are the branches. 110.111.
By the holy Root cannot be meant the predestinate to Glory only. 113, 114.
But visible Professors, fathers and children. p. 115, 116.
The children are in Covenant not by birth, but by such a birth. p. 116, 117.
Covenant holinesse is not the compleat and adequat cause of reall ingrafting in Christ. p. 116, 117, 118
CHAP. XV.
Other considerable differences between externall and internall Covenanting. p. 118, 119.
There is no universall Grace subjective or objective given to all, Rom. 10.18. Psal. 19.3. p. 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124.
Nor power of believing given to all. p. 124, 125, 126.
CHAP. XVI.
The judgement of men esteeming such visible Covenanters to be reall converts before they can be admitted, makes all Egypt, Assyria, the Kingdomes of the world, all Judea Baptized, to be reall converts in the judgement of Iohn Baptist, Paul and the Apostles. p. 129, 130
The invisible Church is the first subj…ct of the promises of speciall note, &c. p. 131, 132
Hypocrites have no warrand to challenge the seals from any command of God, as M. Thom. Hooker sayeth. p. 132
CHAP. XVII.
Who are Hypocrites. p. 133, 134
What Hypocrisie is. p. 135
Parties in the Covenant of Grace as acted upon in heart. p. 137
The Word and the Spirit. p. 138
Of God speaking himself. ib.
Prophesies that now are differ from Scripture Prophesies, and how. p. 139
Revelations made to the Godly, when they are in much nearnesse to GOD p. 140, 141
Marks of a spirituall disposition. p. 142, 143, 144, 145.
To do a duty as a duty, and not as delightfull is a spirituall disposition. p. 144
Not as successefull, but as a duty. p. 145
CHAP. XVIII.
The nature, characters, properties of the new heart and the new spirit of Covenanters. p. 145, 146.
The heart, the man. p 146
The good heart. ib.
How rare a peece the heart is. p. 147
Of the raigning evils of the heart. ib.
Why we are more shamed of lying then of pride. p. 149
The concurrence of the Word to the act of infusion of a new heart a mysterie. p. 149, 150
The Atheisme and impossible lies of the heart. p. 150, 151
The signes of the new heart. p. 151, 152
CHAP XIX.
The place of Evangelick Works in the Covenant. 2. Possession of glory and right to glory different. 3. A twofold right to glory. 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 beleeving both commanded in the Law. Finall unbeleef not the sin forbidden in the Gospel only. 9. How life is promised to our Works Evangelick, p. 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, & seq.
Our mistakes of God, p 15…, 152
The faith that James speaks of is not true faith, p …60
The acts of saving faith, p. 16… 162
James must speak of two sorts of faiths, p. 162, 163
The Arminian Argument to prove that James speaks of declared justification, answered, p. 165, 166
How faith foreign only justifies, p· 170, 171
The Socinian and Arminian faith, and Papists formed faith includes new obedience and repentance, p 172, 173
Contrar… to the Scripture which differenceth between faith and new obedience, p. 174, 175, 176
Right to life eternall and possession of life eternal differ in their nature and causes, p. 176, 177
The nec…ssity of Works, p. 177, 178
Poss…ssion of life and right to life differ, p 178, 179, 180
And contrare obj…ctions removed, ib.
CHAP. XX.
Whether or not suffered Christ for any sin against the Gospel only, su…h as finall unbeleef, which is conceived to be the only sin against the Gospel. That Christ died not for all without exception. The unwarrantablenesse of that Doctrine, how the Law commands justifying faith and repentance, how not, p. 181, 182, &c.
Sins against the Gospel are also sins against the Law, p. 188▪ 189
CHAP XXI.
Whether the Lord Mediator as Mediator command the same good Works in the Covenant of Grace which are commanded in the Covenāt of Works, p. 192, 193
Christ layes one way Evangelick commands upon the Elect, and another way upon the Reprobate, p. 198
How the Reprobate are still under the Covenant of Works, how not, p. 192
CHAP. XXII.
No promise of perseverance to Adam, p. 194.195
Nor any promise to him of influences of Grace, p. 195, 196
4. Classes of obediences considerably compared among themselves▪ p. 196.197, 198
Christs obedience most perfect, most of his own. p. 196
Most undue or least of debt coming from God man, & so most meritorious p. 197
Angels obedience. 2. Of their own, but not so as Christs of his own, and so lesse meritorious, p. 198
3. The obedience of Adam more of his own, then that of Angels, yet lesse obedience, ibid.
4. Gospel-obedience hath least of the nature of obedience, p. 198, 199
CHAP. XXIII.
The Law of Works r…quired not simplie doing, but doing to the end, p. …00.208
CHAP. XXIV.
Whether faith as true, or faith as continuing to the end, be the condition of the Covenant of Grace, p. 201, 202.
Faith which endures to the end, but not quatenus as it indures to the end is the condition of the Covenant of Grace, p. 201, 202
Faith in the first lively acts saves and justifies, p. 202, 203
CHAP. XXV.
Whether is Christs righteousnesse imputed and made ours, because we believe and apprehend it ours, or do we believe, because it is ours, because we believe, p. 206, 207
Faith presupposeth three unions. 1. Naturall. 2. Legall. 3. Federal, and maketh a fourth, p. 208, 209
There be four or five sundry Adversaries against whom the holy Ghost in Scripture contends in the point of justification, p. 210, 211
The dominion of the Law, p. 211.212
What is meant by the oldnesse of the letter, p. 213
How we are freed therefrom, ib.
A threefold bondage of the Law, ib.
Of the dignitie of the Gospel above the La… p. 213, 214
CHAP. XXVI.
Of the perpetuity of the Covenant of Grace, and the considerable differences between it and the Covenant of Works, p. 214, 215, 216, 217.
How it continues with these that are asleep in the Lord, Mat. 22. Exod. 3.6. p. 216
Of the graciousnesse thereof, p. 216, 217
CHAP. XXVII.
Of Law-fear and Gospel-fear, p. 217, 218.
Of the Law-fear of falling away, and the Gospel faith of persevering, p. 218, 219
Why feelings of sin seldome wants unbelief, and should have the faith of a payed ransome, p. 221, 222
CHAP. XXVIII.
Christ died not to blot out all sense of sin, but rather to quicken a godly sense thereof, p. 221, 222, 223
Contents of the II. Part.
CHAP. I.
Christs roome in both Covenants, p. 225
Of Christs active and passive obedience, how they concur as one satisfaction, p. 229, 230
CHAP. II.
WHerein stands our right to Christ, and the satisfaction made for us by Christ? 2. Faith is not the cause of our right. 3. Christs incarnation and dying are not favours me…ited by Christ. 4. How Adams sinne and Christs righteousnesse are ours, p. 230, 238.
CHAP. III.
How Christ suffered for us in our room and place. 2. He died not for all and every one. 4. How many wayes Christ may be said to die in our stead. 4. The Lords so dying for all makes not all saveable in Christ, nor the Gospel preachable to all Nations. 5. Christ died in the stead of the elect, p. 236, 237, 238, 239.
Though we did not substitute him in our place, p. 249 250
The differences between Chr…sts dying and the punishment due to the Elect, p. 250, 251, 252
The legall oneness between Christ and us, p. 251
To die foreign & foreign for us, is to die in our stead, in all eminent languages, p. 253
Christ died not for sins and in the stead of sins, as he died for sinners, p. 256
CHAP. IV.
How we are in Christ dying, and crucified in him. 2. A twofold crucifying of us with Christ. 3. A discourse of mortification. 4. The actings of the mortified. 5. That we are to be mortified in our affections, p. 257, 258, 259.
Though we die personally yet we died in Christ legally, p. 259
We are not to desire a Law-wakening, p. 259, …60
What mortification is, p. 261
The influence of Christs death on mortification, p. 262
Four sorts of actings in mortification, p. 265, 266
We must be mortified to all sort of created things, p. 268, 269 270.271
Forbidden desires. p 270.271
CHAP. V.
The Covenant of Suretyship or of Redemption between God and the Mediator Christ. 2. Christ is not a meer witnesse, but the Author of the Covenant. 3. The Socinian way of W…rks cannot quiet the conscience. 4. Christ is upon both sides of the Covenant. 5. Justice mediates not. 6. Reasons of the entrance of sin.
CHAP. VI.
That there is a Covenant of Suretyship between JEHOVAH and the Son, is proven by 11. Arguments, p. 290, 291, 292.
Christ calling to the Lord his God proves this. 291.292
(2) Christ is a Servant, Messenger, Shepherd, not by nature, but free compact and agreement. p. 292
(3. Ar.) Christ offered his service freely. p. 293
(4. Arg.) There is giving and taking between God and Christ. p. 293.294
(5. Arg.) Christ received the seals whither he needed seals, or not. p. 29….296
(6) Christ with the Father dispensed with the Law. p. 296
(7. Ar.) Rich promises that speak a Covenant made to Christ. p. …96
8. Ar. The Prophesies of Christ, and the promises of, and to him. p. 298
9. Ar. Ask of me▪ Ps. 2. 10. Arg. The work and wages of Christ prove it. p. 299
And, O how low a wager, and how high a designe. p. 300
11. Arg. Christ is admitted by an oath and the use of it against Apostacie of Believers. p. 300.301.302
CHAP. VII.
The Covenant of Redemption is explained in three eternal acts. 1. Designation of one. 2. Decree and destination. 3. Delectation in the work. p. 302, 303.
The attributes of God declared herein. p. 304.305
The Fathers eternall delighting in the Son, 309 307
The strength of Gods love to man. p. 306.307.308
CHAP. VIII.
The differences between the Covenant of Suretyship made with Christ, and the Covenant of Reconciliation made with sinners. 2. The conjunction of the Covenants. 3. How the promises are made to the Seed. The place, Gal. 3.16. opened. 4. Christ suffered and acted ever as a publike head, p. 308, 309, 310.
CHAP. IX.
The 13. Argument from the necessity of Gods call. 2. Of Typicall sprinkling of the blood of the Covenant, and of the Testament. The place, Heb. 13.20. opened. Of the place, Heb. 7.22. the act of Suretyship, the assurance of our state, p. 316, 317, 318.
How the promises are made to Christ, p. 317
The peculiar nature of Christs Testament as such a Testament, p 318, 319
Of the Suretyship of Christ. p. 323, 324
Punishment suffered by the Surety can remove punishment from the guilty man but cannot remove formally the inheren… guilt, and how this was done by Christ. p. 323, 324
Christs undertaking for all. p. 326.327
Of the place, Prov 8.22, 23, 24, &c. p. 306, 307, 308, 327
Arminius yeelds a Covenant between the Father and the Son, p. 327, 328
And how, for Jehovah cannot promise a seed to Christ as a reward of his work by their way, having no Soveraigne power over the will, p. 328, 329, 330
Of such as are his seed. O… the Covenant of the Lord with David, p. 836, 837
Ps. 89. opened, ibid. p. 338 339. Mic. 5.2. p 339
CHAP. X.
Christ procures the Gospel to be Preached to Reprobates, but undertakes not for them. A necessary distinction of the Covenant as Preached according to the approving will of God, and as acted upon the heart according to the decree of God. The place, Jer. 31, Heb. 8. This is my Covenant, opened, p. 339, 340, 341, 342.
The distinction of the approving wil of God & of his wil of pleasure, p. 342.343
Antinonians confound the efficient cause of the obedience and the objective cause or the rule of the Word, p. 345, 346
The purpose and scope of the Holy Ghost is not, Heb. 8. and Jer. 31. to speak or treat of the Covenant of Grace as Preache… in the … but as acted upon the heart, that so Christ may be advance… as a more spirituall and effectuall teacher and Priest, then Moses, Aaron, &c. p. 346, 347, 348
Which two are confounded by Antinom…ans.
CHAP. XI.
Of the promises made to Christ in the Covenant of Mediation, p. 349, 350.
A twofold justification of Christ, p. 349
Christ had a promise of influences, Adam had none at all, p. 350, 351
Our mistake touching comforts and duties, p. 351
Christs satisfaction, p. 351, 352
We may flee to the Covenant, becau…e of Christ, p. 352, 353
Rods are booked in the Covenant o… Works, Deut. 28. and in the Covenant of Grace to both the Covenanters, Psal. 89.30; 31, &c. p. 353
CHAP. XII.
The condition and properties of the Covenant of Redemption. p. 355, 356.
No such condition is required of Christ, as of Adam, p. 356
The paying of the price of blood and dying is the formall condition of the Covenant of Redemption upon the part of Christ, p. 356, 357
The holy qualifications of Christ in the Covenant of Suretyship, p. 357, 358
These qualifications how to be followed by us, p. 354
Christs Grace of headship what force it may have upon us, p. 360▪ 361
The properties of the Covenant of Suretyship. 1. Freedom. 2. Graciousnesse. 3. Eternitie, p. 361, 362, 363
The exposition of that place, 1 Cor. 15.28. p. 3…3, 364
Christ even after the universall judgement, a mediatorie Head, King and Lord, p. 366, 367, 368
Errata.
Pag. 2. lin. …9. read Immortality. p. 15. l. 19. r. no-beings. p. 17. l. 29. r. no-beings. p. 2 r. l. 1, 2. r. God therefore. p. 22. l. 31. r. God it. p. 28. l. 26. r. Isa. 42. p. 39. l. 10. r. abiding. Life ▪ p. 43. l. 24. r. foreign. p. 51. l. 27. r. is in the substance. p. 53. l. 2. r. no grinding of. p. 55. l. 16. r. floor. p. 70. l. …. r. literally. p. 92. l. 10, 11. r. decreed. p. 96. l. 5. r. ground. p. 103. l. 13. r. as symbolick. p. 104. l. 36. r. that the. p. 134. l. 14. r. but cannot. p. 136. l. 21. r. here. p. 140. l. 13. r. seated no discursive. p. 141. l. 33. r. gnawing. p. 160. l. 26. r Menochius. p. 166. l. 26. in ma…. r. spectasset. p. 168 l. 17. r. it is not only. p. 169. l. 29. r. head. p. 186. l. 33. r. Gal. 14. p. 195. l. 1. r. thereof. p. 201. l. 20. r. partaker. p. 206. l. 11. r. have it so. p. 218. l. 29. r steep, for sharp. p. 221. l. 11. r. not only not quarrell. p. 239 l. 15. r. depends not upon. p. 249 l. 1. r. Arminius. p. 251. l. 29. r. acceptation. p. 269. l. 26. r. arts. p. …. l. 3. r. who are not dead to opinions. p. 282. l. 14. gave thee. p. 299. l. 29. r. in his hand. p. 309. l. 36. dele Joh. 8. p. 314. l. 24. r. are. p. 316. l. 10. r. he that said. p. 333. l▪ 18. r. agrees to be. p. 344. l. 15▪ r. and will have.
THE COVENANT OF LIFE OPENED.
CHAP. I. What is to be spoken of the COVENANT of LIFE, shall be reduced to these Heads.
1. The nature and differences of the Covenant of Works, and that of Grace.
2. The Mediator of the Covenant of Life.
3. The application of Covenant-Promises.
4. Of Covenant-Influences of Grace under the Gospel.
Of the latter, especially of the last, not much hath been spoken by any in a practicall way.