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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.
For the manner of this pedagogy under Moses, we are not to conceive, that he taught his Scholars in things too hard for ⟨p. 139⟩their capacity and practise only to set them to others to ask: for it is the part of a bad master to set his Scholars too hard a task, that they might run to their fellows to make exercises, this is the way to non-proficiency. But Moses in the Ceremonial Ordinances did point out Christ, and so as a good School-master directed unto him; and by showing unto the Jews their weakness and inability, convincing them of sin, terrifying their consciences, he did drive them unto Christ, and informed them how to walk being in Christ, that they might inherit the promise. Thus the Law entered that sin might abound, it discovered1 sin, wrought wrath, wounded, terrified and killed, and withal revealed the remedy to be had, not in the Law, but in Christ, that the distressed might not rest in the Law, but seek unto Christ, and live. In a School we must have rods to keep refractory boys in awe, and idle boys to their books, according to the common Proverb, A rod in a School is always in season. This was found with Moses in his School, and used as occasion was offered. The Ceremonies were as an hand-writing against2 them, as they witnessed their uncleanness, or bound them to the debt of the Law: and a curse was denounced against them that should not continue in all things that was written in the book of the Law to do them. School-masters must have Apples and toys to train up boys of better and softer natures, who be won with a Nut and lost with the shell: This the School of the Law wanted not in the hand of Moses, as the outward temporal blessings of this life plentifully spoken too, and distributed by the hand of Moses in his Book: The Jews were as Infants and little children that are much pleased with rattles and other toys: and Moses the rather to win and keep them in obedience, doth make large promises of corporal blessings and an earthly inheritance, as did befit the state and condition of that people. But if these prevail not, he hath his Ferula and gentle rod, which is the commination of temporal calamities and judgements to be inflicted upon transgressors.
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