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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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Hitherto things succeeded prosperously, the King going before, the people followed with joy and cheerfulness, and the blessing of God accompanied them. But when they turned aside, and forsook the statutes and commandments, which the Lord had set before them, and went and served other Gods, and worshipped them, then the Lord afflicted the house of David, and the house which he had sanctified for his name, he cast out of his sight, and made it a Proverb and a common talk among all people, and an astonishment to every one that passed by.
Hitherto things succeeded prosperously, the King going before, the people followed with joy and cheerfulnesse, and the blessing of God accompanied them. But when they turned aside, and forsooke the statutes and commandements, which the Lord had set before them, and went and served other Gods, and worshipped them, then the Lord afflicted the house of David, and the house which he had sanctified for his name, he cast out of his sight, and made it a Proverbe and a common talke among all people, and an astonishment to every one that passed by.
In this Covenant therefore the internal efficacy and outward administration is to be distinguished: or some things are absolutely promised, or if upon condition so as God will make good the condition; others are conditionally promised, so as they take not effect, because the condition was not made good. In the first sense, God promised a Son to David, who should sit upon his throne, and build an house unto the Lord God of Israel: He promised also to establish his throne for ever: but that took not effect in Solomon, but in Christ, who came of the loins of David, and in whose hand the spiritual Kingdom was established for ever-more. I will establish thy seed for ever; and I will build thy 1throne from generation to generation. If you seek for corporal succession in the stock of David, it failed together with the Kingdom: but this eternity is to be found in Christ, who builded a ⟨p. 153⟩Kingdom, that shall never fade; an heavenly and spiritual Kingdom, which shall not cease, before things that are in Heaven do perish and vanish away, that is, never; not earthly and corporal, which is subject to change and alteration. In this sense