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 ...

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 ex∣ternall worship. p. 82, 83.
• Of federall holinesse. ibid.
• Externall Church priviledges of the Covenant are given to Nations and so∣cieties. 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 ful∣filled Covenant. p 90▪ 91.
• No means are proved, by Law, or Gospel, to save infants by the opposers of in∣fant 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.