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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
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.
The things on Gods part promised under this manifestation to Abraham and his subfederates are held forth in these and the like expressions: I will make thee a great Nation, and I will bless thee, 1and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all Families of the earth be blessed. Unto thy seed will I give this land. 2Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, Northward and Southward, and Eastward and Westward. For all the Land 3which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Fear not 4Abraham, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Look ⟨p. 53⟩now towards Heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. I am the Almighty 5God: and I will make my Covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly, and thou shalt be a Father of many Nations. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make Nations of thee, and Kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the Land wherein thou art a stranger, all the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God. By my self have I sworn, saith the 6Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with-held thy Son, thy only Son, That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore, and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.