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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.
2. To be upright is to stand, as it were in Gods presence, as one of the words doth signify, Isa. 57. 2. as was showed before, I 1have set the Lord always before me, Psal. 16. 8. So David protesteth his uprightness, for all his judgements were before me: and I did not put away his Statutes from me. I was also upright before him, and I kept my self from mine iniquity. And I have kept thy precepts, and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. Thus Job proveth himself to be no hypocrite, as his friends2 imagined; Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will prove mine own waie• before him. He also shall be my salvation. for an hypocrite shall not come before him. And seeing he walketh as under the eye, and in the sight of the Almighty, therefore in some measure he is alike in all places and companies, because he remembereth well, that God is present in every place, and doth behold and discern all his actions, yea his secret imaginations.
2. To be upright is to stand, as it were in Gods presence, as one of the words doth signifie, Isa. 57. 2. as was shewed before, I 1have set the Lord alwaies before me, Psal. 16. 8. So David protesteth his uprightnesse, for all his judgements were before me: and I did not put away his Statutes from me. I was also upright before him, and I kept my selfe from mine iniquity. And I have kept thy precepts, and thy testimonies: for all my waies are before thee. Thus Job proveth himself to be no hypocrite, as his friends2 imagined; Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will prove mine owne waie• before him. He also shall be my salvation. for an hypocrite shall not come before him. And seeing he walketh as under the eye, and in the sight of the Almighty, therefore in some measure he is alike in all places and companies, because he remembreth well, that God is present in every place, and doth behold and discerne all his actions, yea his secret imaginations.