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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.
Fourthly, after the giving of the Law a Covenant betwixt God and Israel was established by mutual and willing consent,1 the people promising to obey and do whatsoever the Lord commanded. ⟨p. 107⟩In the Land of Moab Moses was commanded by the2 Lord to make a Covenant with the children of Israel, beside the Covenant which he made with them in Horeb. This Covenant they entered into was the same that God made with them upon Mount Sinai, even the same that did contain the blessings and curses before pronounced. But this Covenant was a Covenant of Grace, not of works: for God never commanded his people, that he might set them on high above all people of the earth, and that they might be an holy people unto him, to avouch him to be their God by a Covenant of works: Moses would3 never have exhorted the people by Oath to bind themselves unto the Lord in a Covenant of works: for that had been to bind themselves unto the most dreadful curses, whereas they were to enter into this Covenant that they might prosper in all that they4 do. That Covenant is of Grace, wherein the good things promised are all free and gracious: but it was of grace that God promised5 to be the God of Israel: and therefore the Lord, when he keepeth Covenant with Israel, is said to keep the mercy which he swore unto their Fathers, and when he established them for a people unto himself, and is their God, he is said to perform the Oath, which he swore unto their Fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.6
Fourthly, after the giving of the Law a Covenant betwixt God and Israel was established by mutuall and willing consent,1 the people promising to obey and doe whatsoever the Lord commanded. ⟨p. 107⟩