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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.
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These gracious and free promises God made to David and to his house, and to the whole Kingdom of Israel, not for their righteousness, but of his manifold and great mercy. And as he promised them without consideration of their desert, so of his rich grace and love undeserved, he made them good. For Davids house was not such as it ought to be before God, they kept not promise & Covenant: but the Lord was merciful and gracious, he did not forget his truth, nor suffer his mercies to fail▪ If his children ⟨p. 148⟩1forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgements, if they break 2my statutes, and keep not my Commandments: Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes: But my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my truth. True it is, the Lord did correct the posterity of David for their sin with moderate correction, and for their profit, that they might be partakers of holiness: But even when it did not bud or come on according to that which seemed to be promised, the Lord was most faithful in his promises: for it was their sin that kept them down. And for this (saith the Lord3 to Solomon) I will afflict the house of David, but not for ever: for the whole spiritual kingdom was restored in the Messiah. I will make the horn of David to bud, I have ordained a lamp 4for mine anointed: that is, I will make the Kingdom and power to increase. For Davids sake did the Lord his God give him a light in Jerusalem, and set up his son after him, and established Jerusalem. Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah, for David his 5servants sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children for ever. Great deliverance giveth he unto his King (he is the magnifier of salvations unto his King) and showeth mercy 6unto his anointed, to David and to his seed for ever.