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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.
24. 12. where God promiseth to find the tables, and write in them with his own finger: and such was the fear of the second delivery, that Moses was glad to lenify the former by reading the judicials, which he had writ, and to offer sacrifice.
24. 12. where God promiseth to find the tables, and write in them with his owne finger: and such was the feare of the second delivery, that Moses was glad to lenifie the former by reading the judicialls, which he had writ, and to offer sacrifice.
And thus Moses goes up the second time, and receives the two tables tarrying there forty days. Whilst Moses stayed the people brake the Covenant by Idolatry. God sent Moses down, and by wise providence so ordered, that Moses brake the Tables of the Covenant; and now was all dashed, and Moses to begin again to mediate for this sin in Aaron and the people, Exod. 32. 19. Deut. 9. Hitherto in the delivery and writing of the Law Moral thunders nothing but wrath: and the more Law, the less obedience, till the Law was veiled and shadowed from them in the curse of it. Moses having thus travailed and broken those bare and open Tables, wherein was curse and plague with open face painted, he is called up again. Exod. 34. Deut. 2. 1. but consider with what alteration. For first Moses now must hew the Tables, God would not deal with that, signifying that he would ⟨p. 98⟩have the Mediator Moses to have more to do with the delivery of the second writing then at the first, which was the prologue to the lenifying of the Law, wherewith man had to do. 2. Moses must bring the Tables up, and God would write the words before written, which showed that God could not, nor would not alter the Law, which was a perfect draught of the first Law imprinted in Adam. 3. Consider that here was no preparation, nor any terror of wonders, but a soft breath of God in this passage, noting this, that God had sufficiently thundered wrath in the former delivery, and now seeks to cover it that the people might hear and obey. 4. Moses must provide an Ark to cover the Tables, which was not only for the safe keeping of the Tables, but to cover the wrath and curse, that the people should not see it, which was the first veil. 5. We do not read that ever the Lord would have either the people or Priest to read these words out of stone, but as they were mollified by Moses his transcription, in his books especially; wherein Prince and people were to read the duties of the Covenant and the promises. No more tables, there they are, but deal not with them, there is wrath at the first opening: which was the reason why God smote the men of Bethshemesh with such a slaughter, because they durst look into, and read upon these tables of the Ark of the Lord,