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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.
This Covenant God made not only with the Fathers, whom he brought out of the Land of Egypt, […] with their posterity. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God: your Captains 1of your tribes, your Elders and your Officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into Covenant which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: Neither with you only do I make this Covenant, and this Oath: 2but with him that standeth here with us this day, before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. And that it might be the better established, he gave special charge and commandment, that the words which he had spoken by Moses and the Prophets, should be publicly read, often inculcated, and expounded unto them: and that all his visitations of this people, whether in mercy whilst they obeyed his voice, or in judgement for their disobedience, should be registered to remain3 upon record as so many ruled cases and presidents, and published and rehearsed unto their children, that they might learn to set their hope in God, and not forget his Commandments. But this Covenant was so made with the Jews, that if any stranger ⟨p. 130⟩amongst them, or near adjoining Heathen did turn unto the Lord, he was not to be excluded. When a stranger shall sojourn 4with thee and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near, and keep it: and he shall be as one that is borne in the Land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
This Covenant God made not only with the Fathers, whom he brought out of the Land of Egypt, 〈…〉 with their posterity. Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God: your Captaines 1of your tribes, your Elders and your Officers, with all the men of Israel, your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy campe, from the hewer of thy wood, unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into Covenant which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: Neither with you only doe I make this Covenant, and this Oath: