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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.
when Moses was standing before the Lord with his prepared tables, the Lord descended, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord, and said. The Lord God merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in mercy and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin. Thus the Lord would take away the edge of the curse, though he would write it for ends unmentioned. Then the Lord upon the Mount rehearsed the Covenant of grace with Israel, and causeth Moses the Mediator to write it, Exod. 34. 27. And now he had in his hand both the Covenant of works and of grace, the one hid in the Ark, the other open in his hand: the same Commandments, but the one with wrath, the other lenified by God. 7. When Moses came down this appearance of God had changed the skin of his face, that he was glad to put a veil upon him, for otherwise the people could not, nay durst not behold him, but ran from him, as at first from God, when he delivered the Law upon Mount […], which God would have for the very same end, ⟨p. 99⟩Moses his shining face signifying the curse and wrath of God in the Law, as a mere draught of the Covenant of works, which the people could not behold, his veil signifying the covering of this curse from the eyes of Israel. 8. Consider that till the Law as a mee•e draught of natures Law was marked and thus veiled at Moses his proposition of the remedy unto these carnal Israelites, in the blood of the sacrifices, writ in the Ceremonial Law, it could not quiet them, nor pacify their consciences. 9. Observe this one thing further, that Moses in the five books doth so shun this rigid proposition of the Law, that the Apostle when he came to deal with the false Apostles about this acceptation of the Law as standing full against the Covenant of Grace and Justification by faith, could find but two testimonies in all Moses, which necessarily convinced this manner of propounding the Law, the one, Deut. 21. 23. the other, Deut. 27. 26. But because this end of the vailing of Moses his face, as tending to signify the curse of the Moral Law, and the vailing of it from the eyes of carnal Israel is called into question by some of prized judgement, and that from the passage of