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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 Law was given to be a rule of direction to them that be in Covenant: and works of the Law are works done according to that prescription: which the Apostle here excludes from being any cause of Justification, though he that walks according to this Law, being not an hearer, but a doer of the Law, is blessed in his deed. But of this more at large in the next Chapter.
The Law was given to be a rule of direction to them that be in Covenant: and workes of the Law are workes done according to that prescription: which the Apostle here excludes from being any cause of Justification, though he that walkes according to this Law, being not an hearer, but a doer of the Law, is blessed in his deed. But of this more at large in the next Chapter.
5. Consider the opposition which the Apostle makes betwixt his own righteousness, which is of the Law, and the righteousness1 which is of God by faith. I count all things (saith he) but as d•ng, that I might win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. If then the righteousness of God through faith be the matter whereupon, or for which we are justified, we are not justified ⟨p. 72⟩by works: but the righteousness of God through faith is the matter whereupon we are justified. Christ is the end of the 2Law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. We are made the righteousness of God in him. The righteousness of the Law is not3 here put for works done exactly by the strength of nature; but for works done according to the prescription of the Law, according to which people in Covenant ought to walk, to whom God hath promised, that if they keep his Commandments, they shall be unto him a peculiar people, chosen generation, and royal priesthood.