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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, Eternal life is promised in the Covenant: for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: and therefore the faithful Jews, which have God for their God do live still, not1 in earth, but in heaven. The life which is promised to them that keep the Law, is eternal: but in this Covenant life is promised to them that keep the Commandments. Not only long2 life and good days, in the Land of Canaan, but eternal life is assured by the promise to them that keep Covenant, as eternal death and destruction is comprehended under the curse denounced against them that break the Covenant. Express mention of3 the King some of Heaven perhaps is not found in the Old Testament: but eternal life is comprehended under the terms of life and blessing, as eternal death under the terms of death and the Curse. Eternal life in heaven, eternal death in hell, the Law noteth, though it do not expressly name them, Which things unless they had been commonly known in the days of our Saviour, the penitent Thief about to die, had not thought of a Kingdom, nor the Lord promised Paradise to him, when he asked a place in the Kingdom of the Messiah.
Fourthly, Eternall life is promised in the Covenant: for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living: and therefore the faithfull Jewes, which have God for their God doe live still, not1 in earth, but in heaven. The life which is promised to them that keepe the Law, is eternall: but in this Covenant life is promised to them that keepe the Commandements. Not only long2 life and good dayes, in the Land of Canaan, but eternall life is assured by the promise to them that keepe Covenant, as eternall death and destruction is comprehended under the curse denounced against them that breake the Covenant. Expresse mention of3 the King some of Heaven perhaps is not found in the Old Testament: but eternall life is comprehended under the termes of life and blessing, as eternall death under the tearmes of death and the Curse. Eternall life in heaven, eternall death in hell, the Law noteth, though it doe not expressely name them, Which things unlesse they had been commonly knowne in the dayes of our Saviour, the penitent Thiefe about to die, had not thought of a Kingdome, nor the Lord promised Paradice to him, when he asked a place in the Kingdome of the Mssiah.