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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
A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE. › Chapter 1: Of the significations of the word Covenant.
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.
seldom [Greek or Hebrew], Covenant, Isa. 28. 15. which is used elsewhere, Sap. 1. 16. 1 Mac. 10. 26. 2 Mac. 13. 25. & 24. 26. But in the old Testament, the word Berith is never read for a testamentary disposition, which of the Rabbins, as Drusius witnesseth, is called [Greek or Hebrew] from the word that signifieth to command, and so to set his house in order, or to make his will, Isa. 38. 1. Which word is yet general, ⟨p. 3⟩and must be restrained according to the circumstances of the place, Where the LXX. and Theodotio translate it [Greek or Hebrew], Symmaechus and Aquila turn it [Greek or Hebrew]. Psal. 25. 14. Nor is it a thing unusual with classical Authors of the Greek tongue to use the word [Greek or Hebrew] in the general signification; For Camerarius citeth out of Aristophan. de Avibus, [Greek or Hebrew], used for to make a Covenant. The Papists carp at our Interpreters, because they render the word Covenant, rather then Testament: for they would have it to signify a testamentary disposition. But they are deceived, for the signification of the word is more general: and the Apostle Heb. 9. 16. argueth not from the simple signification of the word, but the circumstances of the Covenant. In a Covenant and Testament both, there is an ordination and disposition of things according to pleasure: and the Greek phrase in the New Testament doth follow the received Interpretation of the Septuagint; although in this the Covenant of Grace is like to a Testament, that it is not established but by the death of the Mediator as of a Testator.
seldome 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Covenant, Isa. 28. 15. which is used elsewhere, Sap. 1. 16. 1 Mac. 10. 26. 2 Mac. 13. 25. & 24. 26. But in the old Testament, the word Berith is never read for a testamentary disposition, which of the Rabbins, as Drusius witnesseth, is called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 from the word that signifieth to command, and so to set his house in order, or to make his will,