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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.
CHAP. VIII. A particular explication of the Covenant that God made with Israel, and what Moses brought to the further expressure of the Covenant of Grace.
This doubt being thus discussed, we may proceed with more facility to lay open the particulars of this Covenant. God of his free-grace and mercy made this Covenant with Israel upon Mount Sinai, fifty days after the Israelites were delivered out of1 Egypt: as fifty days after the deliverance of his people from the bondage of sin and Satan, the same Lord proclaims his Gospel or new Covenant upon Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the Metropolis or2 royal seat of Abraham or Davids seed. God, I say, of his infinite love and undeserved mercy did make this Covenant: for if he remember mercy, when he performeth his Covenant, then it was of mere grace, that he entered into Covenant. Also it is of mercy3 that God doth troth-plight him unto any people; for the promise runneth, I will betroth thee unto me for ever: yea, I will ⟨p. 123⟩betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgement, and in loving kindness, and in mercies. But when the Lord made this Covenant, he betrothed himself unto Israel. And when he made this Covenant, he did more fully proclaim his great name, and make his mercy better known, then formerly he had done, for4 ought we find. For he passed by before Moses, and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth: keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and the fourth generation. Which glorious description of Almighty God is often