Samuel Rutherford (1600 - 1661) was a Scotch Covenanter that wrote several classic works of Presbyterian polity many of which are available on-line or via your favorite online rare-bookseller. But One book that has curiously not made it back into print is The Covenant of Life Opened, Or, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace, Edinburgh: Andre Anderson, 1654. This would be is a helpful book indeed to bring back into reprint either facsimile or re-typeset. The main parts are pictured in the pic on the left of this title page.

Addendum: You can find a copy here at Reformation Heritage Books! How silly of me … I should have checked with my publisher first … (Thanks Marty!!) Added to RHB’s catalog on Monday 07 August, 2006.

This is a fascinating piece as Rutherford walks closely through the nature of the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace. I will be reading through this work over the next couple of weeks for fun (it’s only 200 pages) and as I bump something that strikes me as interesting I will be sure to post it here. In the meantime, here are points in the table of contents that caught my eye: (more…)