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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.
7. Solomon built the Temple upon the Mount Mo•iah, the place appointed and appropriated by the Lord, according to the pattern showed unto him by his father David. So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, which had been declared unto David his Father, in the place that David prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
7. Solomon built the Temple upon the Mount Mo•iah, the place appointed and appropriated by the Lord, according to the patterne shewed unto him by his father David. So Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, which had been declared unto David his Father, in the place that David prepared in the threshing floore of Ornan the Jebusite.
8. Also he dedicated the house of God, blessed the people, praised God for his goodness, prayed unto the Lord that his eyes1 might be open towards this house day and night, even toward this place, whereof the Lord had said, that he would put his name ⟨p. 152⟩there, that he would hearken unto the prayer, which his servants pray in that place. This prayer of Solomon the Lord answered first by signs of acceptation: for when he had made an end of praying, fire 2came down from Heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices: and the glory of the Lord filled the house, so that the Priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lords house. And then the Lord appeared to Solomon 3by night, and said to him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place for my self to be an house of Sacrifice. And I have now chosen and sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for ever: and mine eyes, and mine heart shall be there perpetually. And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy Father walked, to do according