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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.
It may be hereby God would testify his anger and displeasure against sin, not as yet expiated by the blood of the Messiah, and warn the Israelites to deny themselves, stand in awe of his Highness, and cleave inseparably unto the word of his promise.
It may be hereby God would testifie his anger and displeasure against sinne, not as yet expiated by the bloud of the Messiah, and warne the Israelites to deny themselves, stand in awe of his Highnesse, and cleave inseparably unto the word of his promise.
If any man shall think, that Christ the second person in Trinity to be incarnate, who is called the Angel of the Covenant, or Messenger of the Covenant, (scil. by whom it was sent unto Moses) Mal. 3. 1. and the Angel of his presence. Exod. 23. 20, 21. and 33. 14. Isai. 63. 9. did deliver the Law unto Moses, I will not gain-say it: because it is expressly said, that Moses was in the Church in the wilderness with the Angel, who spake to him in the Mount Sinai. Act. 7. 37. who is called Christ, 1 Cor. 10. 9. And this Covenant of Grace was made in Christ, the promised seed: ⟨p. 125⟩for God was not the God of Israel but in and through the promised Messiah: whose person and offices are more fully described, whose death and resurrection is more lively typified in this expressure of the Covenant then in either of the former. Had ye believed 1Moses (saith Christ himself the Author of truth) you would have believed me: For he wrote of me: that is, Christ was, if not the sole subject, yet the only scope of Moses his writings. And as Moses, so the Prophets that followed after him, who wrote by the same Spirit, and under that expression of the Covenant, did speak of Christ more fully and plainly then he had done before. In the first promise it was revealed, that the Messiah should be the seed of the woman, to Abraham it was made known, that he should be of his seed: but in the writings of Moses we learn, that he was to be both God and man, or that God was to be incarnate, and to have his conversation amongst men, after a more peculiar manner then in the ancient times of the world he had. The promise runs thus, And I will dwell amongst the children of Israel, and will be their