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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.
But all will be evident if it be showed what is here meant by the Image of Christ, which we behold with open face, which is not the blood of Christ veiled in the blood of the Sacrifices, but the Law of God writ in his heart, (promised Jer. 31. 34.) as the head, which is the new command of the Moral Law, set up for us as a glass which beholding by faith, we are changed into the same Image by the Spirit, and now it will appear that the whole Chapter speaks of the Moral Law.
But all will be evident if it be shewed what is here meant by the Image of Christ, which we behold with open face, which is not the blood of Christ vailed in the blood of the Sacrifices, but the Law of God writ in his heart, (promised Jer. 31. 34.) as the head, which is the new command of the Morall Law, set up for us as a glasse which behoulding by faith, we are changed into the same Image by the Spirit, and now it will appeare that the whole Chapter speakes of the Morall Law.
Another enforcement of this distinction is from the Apostle Gal. 3. where he disputes against the Moral Law taken as a rigid draught of natures Law, unto the 23. verse, for otherwise the Law had been no enemy unto him as a branch of the Covenant of Grace: but at the 23. verse he disputes the good ends of it, as propounded with Gods moderation. By the Law which we call the Moral Law, Moses and Paul mean the mere draught of the Law of nature, as it hath necessarily affixed eternal life to the punctual performance, or eternal curse to the disobeyers in the least title. For the Law is complexum quiddam, containing in it command▪ and blessing and cursing. Take command without blessing or cursing, and it is no more Law with Moses: take simpl• denunciation of blessing and curse from command, and then it is threatening and promise, but no Law.