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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.
4. The righteousness of one being of grace accepted for, or imputed to another, is righteousness imputative: but this stands not in a bare opinion, or naked estimation without reality or truth, but in a real donation and communicating of righteousness unto him, that is esteemed just. True it is, righteousness imputative is not inherent in them unto whom it is imputed, as in the subject: but it is made theirs by right of donation.
4. The righteousnesse of one being of grace accepted for, or imputed to another, is righteousnesse imputative: but this stands not in a bare opinion, or naked estimation without reality or truth, but in a reall donation and communicating of righteousnesse unto him, that is esteemed just. True it is, righteousnesse imputative is not inherent in them unto whom it is imputed, as in the subject: but it is made theirs by right of donation.
5. It may also be noted, that the word Imputation, hath reference to some other thing, and commonly cometh in betwixt two things, the one the thing which is imputed, the other that1 whereunto it is imputed, so that imputation hath relation unto both. And to make this manifest, we may consider these three phrases. The first is, The obedience of Christ is imputed unto justification, conformable to that saying of the Apostle, By the obedience of one man many are made righteous. The second phrase is, Faith is imputed unto righteousness. The third is, Righteousness is imputed unto life. The equivalent whereof we have, Rom. 4. 11. & 5. 17, 18. In the first phrase imputation is betwixt Christs obedience, as the thing which is imputed, and justification as the end whereunto it is imputed, and it hath reference. In the second phrase, imputation cometh in betwixt faith, as the thing which is ⟨p. 64⟩