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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.
use this word to give the signification of two others that signify to uphold or underprop and make equal, Psal. 17. 5. Psal. 18. 34. The1 second signifieth whole or entire. 1 Thess. 5. 23. James 1. 4. The third perfect, Ephes. 4. 12. James 1. 4, 5. 1 Joh. 4. 17, 18. But all these in use import the same thing for substance. A thing is said to be perfect three ways. 1. That is perfect which is entire in all integral parts, firmly knit together, faculties and functions;2 when there is in all the parts of Sanctification something: as lively creatures are brought forth perfect, Infants complete in all their parts and members are perfect. In this sense perfect is opposed to that which is divided, imperfect, maimed; as an Embryon not yet fashioned in the womb is opposed to a perfect Infant; Pharisaical love as partial, lame and maimed, extending it self to them that loved them only, is opposed to perfect love, which stretcheth it self to friend and foe. Matth. 5. 47, 48. an entire heart is opposed to an heart and an heart, a double heart that makes a major part against it self. 1 Chron. 12. 33, 38. For in3 that which is entire, all things do mutually answer one another, do conspire into one: that is not entire which dissents from it self, is not one and whole, or in which there is division and disagreement. Thus Christians sanctified by the Spirit of grace in every power of the soul, the seeds of all virtues being ingrafted