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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.
But to return to the matter, to impute is either to acknowledge that which is truly in one, to be his indeed, and to attribute it to him, or else to attribute that to one which indeed is not his. In general it is to transcribe or transfer and put over the cause of any thing to any one. So Ulpian. in lege 1. parag. Item quaeritur, de separat: Sibi imputent, quo minus idoncum fide jussorem acceperint; id est, ascribant & tribuant. Item apud jurisconsult. Imputare significat acceptum seu expensum ferre, ut imputare sibi debet, qui credulus fuit. Legum. 1. §. dolu••ff, •o per quem factum. To impute then is to ascribe a matter good or evil, or the cause thereof to any one, which he hath, or hath not. The imputation of an evil is two-fold, just and due, when the evil imputed or the cause thereof is in the subject to which it is imputed: so sin is imputed to him that hath committed it, and folly to him that hath not spoken that which is right, Job▪ 42. 8. and the debt is imputed to him that undertook to make payment, or give ⟨p. 62⟩satisfaction. Unjust or undeserved, when the evil or cause thereof is not in the subject, as when a fault is imputed to an innocent, and punishment inflicted upon him that neither offended in his own person, nor undertook to be surety for the offender, 1 Sam. 1. 16. Gen. 38. 15. Plin. lib. 8. cap. 1.
But to reture to the matter, to impute is either to acknowledge that which is truly in one, to be his indeed, and to attribute it to him, or else to attribute that to one which indeed is not his. In generall it is to transcribe or transferre and put over the cause of any thing to any one. So Ʋlpian. in lege 1. parag. Item quaeritur, de separat: Sibi imputent, quo minus idoncum fide jussorem acceperint; id est, ascribant & tribuant. Item apud jurisconsult. Imputare significat acceptum seu expensum ferre, ut imputare sibi debet, qui credulus fuit. Legum. 1. §. dolu••ff, •o per quem factum. To impute then is to ascribe a matter good or evill, or the cause thereof to any one, which he hath, or hath not. The imputation of an evill is two-fold, just and due, when the evill imputed or the cause thereof is in the subject to which it is imputed: so sin is imputed to him that hath committed it, and folly to him that hath not spoken that which is right, Job 42. 8. and the debt is imputed to him that undertooke to make payment, or give