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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.
The Lord will astonish them with fears, that give themselves to all manner of sin and wickedness: but as for them that love and follow uprightness, he communicateth himself graciously and familiarly unto them. He stiles himself a consuming fire, least his Majesty and power should be contemned: but whosoever draw nigh unto him with a true and unfeigned desire to please him in all things, they shall feel by the effects, that his presence is most sweet and amiable.1 Neither doth the blessing of God reach to the upright only, but to their posterity. The generation of the upright shall be ⟨p. 183⟩blessed. But as for the crooked and perverse, it is not so with them: for their sins are uncovered, The froward is an abomination to the Lord, their hope shall perish, they shall be cut off from the earth, they shall be taken in their own naughtiness, and their end shall be accursed.
The Lord will astonish them with feares, that give themselves to all manner of sinne and wickednesse: but as for them that love and follow uprightnesse, he communicateth himselfe graciously and familiarly unto them. He stiles himselfe a consuming fire, least his Majestie and power should be contemned: but whosoever draw nigh unto him with a true and unfained desire to please him in all things, they shall feele by the effects, that his presence is most sweet and aimiable.1 Neither doth the blessing of God reach to the upright only, but to their posterity. The generation of the upright shall be ⟨p. 183⟩blessed. But as for the crooked and perverse, it is not so with them: for their sins are uncovered, The froward is an abhomination to the Lord, their hope shall perish, they shall be cut off from the earth, they shall be taken in their own naughtinesse, and their end shall be accursed.