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A treatise of the covenant of grace wherein the gradual breakings out of Gospel…A treatise of the covenant of grace wherein the graduall breakings out of Gospel…
A treatise of the covenant of grace wherein the gradual breakings out of Gospel grace from Adam to Christ are clearly discovered, the differences betwixt the Old and New Testament are laid open, divers errors of Arminians and others are confuted, the nature of uprightness, and the way of Christ in bringing the soul into communion with himself ... are solidly handled / by that faithful servant of Jesus Christ, and minister of the Gospel, John Ball ; published by Simeon Ash.A treatise of the covenant of grace wherein the graduall breakings out of Gospel grace from Adam to Christ are clearly discovered, the differences betwixt the Old and New Testament are laid open, divers errours of Arminians and others are confuted, the nature of uprightnesse, and the way of Christ in bringing the soul into communion with himself ... are solidly handled / by that faithfull servant of Jesus Christ, and minister of the Gospel, John Ball ; published by Simeon Ash.
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1645
A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE. › Chapter 4: Of the Covenant of Promise.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If it be objected, how then could they be saved?
In the second place i• is to be observed, that Christ doth not save as clearly known, but as he is sincerely acknowledged. But when the Revelation was sparing and dark, no man can deny that ⟨p. 32⟩[…] ⟨p. 33⟩[…] ⟨p. 34⟩Christ was truly and unfeignedly acknowledged in the Church of the Jews. The word of God is the measure of faith, and that is true and saving faith, which believeth all things which are revealed, and in that manner wherein they are revealed, and therefore the faith of the Fathers was sound and effectual, because they believed what God was pleased to reveal, and after that manner wherein it was revealed of God.
In the second place i• is to be observed, that Christ doth not save as clearly knowne, but as he is sincerely acknowledged. But when the Revelation was sparing and darke, no man can deny that ⟨p. 32⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 33⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 34⟩Christ was truly and unfainedly acknowledged in the Church of the Iewes. The word of God is the measure of faith, and that is true and saving faith, which believeth all things which are revealed, and in that manner wherein they are revealed, and therefore the faith of the Fathers was sound and effectuall, because they believed what God was pleased to reveale, and after that manner wherein it was revealed of God.