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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 9: Of the Covenant that God made with David.
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.
5. That his house should be established and his Kingdom for ever1 before the Lord, even his throne should be established for ever. His seed will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of Heaven. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne shall be as the Sun before me. He shall be established for evermore as the Moon, as a faithful witness in the heaven: that is, his Kingdom shall be perpetual and glorious. For although the Moon waxeth and waneth and seemeth sometimes to be gone, yet it is continually renewed, and so stable: which is a fit resemblance of the Church, which hath not always one face or appearance in the world, though it be perpetual. And though for the sins of the people and Davids house, the state of his Kingdom and house2 decayed, yet God reserved still a root, till he had accomplished this promise in Christ.
5. That his house should be established and his Kingdome for ever1 before the Lord, even his throne should be established for ever. His seed will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the daies of Heaven. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne shall be as the Sun before me. He shall be established for evermore as the Moon, as a faithfull witnesse in the heaven: that is, his Kingdome shall be perpetuall and glorious. For although the Moone waxeth and waineth and seemeth sometimes to be gone, yet it is continually renewed, and so stable: which is a fit resemblance of the Church, which hath not alwaies one face or appearance in the world, though it be perpetuall. And though for the sins of the people and Davids house, the state of his Kingdome and house2 decayed, yet God reserved still a root, till he had accomplished this promise in Christ.
- 12 Sam. •. 16. 1 Chron. 22. 16