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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.
Secondly, It was the effect of this ordinance to offer up prayers to God for the people upon their Incense. To run into every particular in this kind were infinite.
Secondly, It was the effect of this ordinance to offer up prayers to God for the people upon their Incense. To runne into every particular in this kind were infinite.
The effect of this Covenant, that it bringeth forth children, but in some kind of bondage, pressed and kept under with servitude. For the heir so long as he is under Tutors and Governors differeth 1not from a servant, though he be Lord of all. The Jews were children and heirs, but tutored and kept under with many Ceremonial ordinances and observations as appendices to the Law, expedient for that time and state. But there is a twofold servitude; one to damnation, which shuts the sons of such disposition out of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was figured by the bondage of Ismael and Hagar. This the Covenant doth not beget in it self, but in them that rejected Christ the soul of the Law, and trusted in their works to be justified thereby. The other of sons, which are held under the nurture of the Law and ⟨p. 142⟩legal rites, but rest not in them, but by them are led unto Christ; which abide still in the house, and partake of the dignity of sons though under Tutors; and this servitude is an effect of the Covenant thus administered.
The effect of this Covenant, that it bringeth forth children, but in some kind of bondage, pressed and kept under with servitude. For the heire so long as he is under Tutors and Governours differeth 1not from a servant, though he be Lord of all. The Jewes were children and heires, but tutored and kept under with many Ceremoniall ordinances and observations as appendices to the Law, expedient for that time and state. But there is a twofold servitude; one to damnation, which shuts the sonnes of such disposition out of the Kingdome of Heaven, which was figured by the bondage of Ismael and Hagar. This the Covenant doth not beget in it selfe, but in them that rejected Christ the soule of the Law, and trusted in their workes to be justified thereby. The other of sonnes, which are held under the nourture of the Law and