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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.
3. If faith with works be accepted for righteousness to Justification, then faith justifieth not as it embraceth the promises of mercy, and by it we partake in the merits of Christs death and ⟨p. 71⟩obedience, but as it doth give assent to the truth of the Gospel, and adhere and stick to the Commandments: for in that sense it is an act or exercise commanded in the Gospel, and not only as it doth receive Christ and the promise of forgiveness. But in Scripture every where faith in Christ, in the Lord Jesus, or the1 blood of Christ is said to justify, not faith in other promises, threatenings, or Commandments.
3. If faith with workes be accepted for righteousnesse to Justification, then faith justifieth not as it imbraceth the promises of mercy, and by it we partake in the merits of Christs death and ⟨p. 71⟩obedience, but as it doth give assent to the truth of the Gospell, and adhere and sticke to the Commandements: for in that sense it is an act or exercise commanded in the Gospell, and not only as it doth receive Christ and the promise of forgivenesse. But in Scripture every where faith in Christ, in the Lord Jesus, or the1 bloud of Christ is said to justifie, not faith in other promises, threatnings, or Commandements.
4. How can it be proved, that in the matter of Justification the Apostle doth oppose faith to works exactly perfect and complete only, and not to the works of grace done according to the prescription of the Law, as it was given to the Jews to be a rule how people in Covenant ought to walk. To him that worketh