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The Covenant of Life Opened

by Samuel Rutherford

A comprehensive Reformed treatise exploring the architecture of God's dealings with humanity through three covenants: the Covenant of Works with Adam, the Covenant of Grace with believers, and the eternal Covenant of Redemption between the Father and Christ the Mediator. Rutherford examines how the law, faith, and gospel promises relate to each covenant, exposes the dangers of formalism and hypocrisy in professing the covenant, and demonstrates how Christ's substitutionary work secures the salvation of the elect.
Chapters
43
Word count
152,907
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 Title Page 177 words
  2. 02 To the Reader 437 words
  3. 03 Chapter 1: What Is to Be Spoken of the Covenant of Life 57 words
  4. 04 Chapter 2: Propositions Touching Adam's Covenant-State 648 words
  5. 05 Chapter 3: The Intent and Sense of the Threatening in Genesis 2:17 and 3:20 2,363 words
  6. 06 Chapter 4: The Elect Non-Converted Are Not Under Law-Wrath 1,904 words
  7. 07 Chapter 5: God Intended a Law-Dispensation but for a Time 636 words
  8. 08 Chapter 6: It Was Condescension in the Lord to Enter into Covenant with Man 1,949 words
  9. 09 Chapter 7: It Is Not Written in the Heart of Man by Nature That God Should Promise Eternal Life upon Condition of Obedience 11,693 words
  10. 10 Chapter 8: What Place Death Has in the Covenant 1,027 words
  11. 11 Chapter 9: What Life Is Promised in the Covenant of Works 2,910 words
  12. 12 Chapter 10 441 words
  13. 13 Chapter 11: The Three-Fold Covenant Considered 2,970 words
  14. 14 Chapter 12: All Are to Try Under What Covenant They Are 2,925 words
  15. 15 Chapter 13: There Are Two Sorts of Covenanting: External and Internal 9,888 words
  16. 16 Chapter 14: Considerations of the Arguments for Infant Baptism 9,259 words
  17. 17 Chapter 15: The Differences of External and Internal Covenanting 4,362 words
  18. 18 Chapter 16: Cases from the Former Doctrine on External and Internal Covenanting 1,639 words
  19. 19 Chapter 17: Of the Hypocrisy of Formal Covenanters 5,330 words
  20. 20 Chapter 18: The New Heart of Covenanters 2,712 words
  21. 21 Chapter 19: The Place of Evangelical Works in the New Covenant 11,554 words
  22. 22 Chapter 20: Whether Christ Suffered for Any Sin Against the Gospel Only 4,903 words
  23. 23 Chapter 21 422 words
  24. 24 Chapter 22: The Differences in the Promise of the Covenants 2,768 words
  25. 25 Chapter 23 150 words
  26. 26 Chapter 24: Whether Faith as Lively and True, or Faith as Continuing to the End, Is the Condition of the Covenant of Grace 1,729 words
  27. 27 Chapter 25: What Faith Is Required in the Gospel 416 words
  28. 28 Chapter 26 3,273 words
  29. 29 Chapter 27: Of the Property of the Covenant of Grace, Its Perpetuity 1,349 words
  30. 30 Chapter 28: Of Cases of Law-Fear and Gospel-Faith 1,604 words
  31. 31 Chapter 29: Christ Died Not to Blot Out the Sense of Sin, but to Quicken a Godly Sense of It 882 words
  32. 32 Part 2 — Chapter 1 2,198 words
  33. 33 Part 2 — Chapter 2: Wherein Stands Our Right to Christ and His Satisfaction 2,268 words
  34. 34 Part 2 — Chapter 3: How Christ Suffered for Us in Our Room and Place 8,799 words
  35. 35 Part 2 — Chapter 4: Now We Are in Christ Dying and Crucified in Him 10,488 words
  36. 36 Part 2 — Chapter 5: Of the Covenant of Redemption Between God and the Mediator Christ 3,587 words
  37. 37 Part 2 — Chapter 6: Whether There Is a Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption Between God and the Son 5,150 words
  38. 38 Part 2 — Chapter 7: The Covenant of Redemption Explained in Three Eternal Acts 2,569 words
  39. 39 Part 2 — Chapter 8: The Differences Between the Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Grace 2,970 words
  40. 40 Part 2 — Chapter 9: The Argument from the Necessity of God's Call and the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant 10,084 words
  41. 41 Part 2 — Chapter 10: Christ Procures the Gospel to Be Preached to All, but Undertakes Not for the Reprobate 3,840 words
  42. 42 Part 2 — Chapter 11: Of the Promises Made to Christ in the Covenant of Mediation 2,789 words
  43. 43 Part 2 — Chapter 12: The Condition and Properties of the Covenant of Redemption 5,788 words

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