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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 Author of this Covenant is God in Jesus Christ: for none can make these promises but God, none can make them good but his Highness. Therefore the Lord doth evermore challenge this unto himself, that he is the maker of the Covenant: And as it is1 called our Covenant in respect of the conditions required, Zech. 9. 11. So it is called the Lords Covenant, because he hath made, and will establish it. If ye can break my Covenant of the day, and my Covenant of the night, &c. Then may also my Covenant be broken 2with David my servant. Christ also as Mediator is both the foundation and Author of this Covenant, as he is appointed of the Father ⟨p. 199⟩Lord and King, advanced at the right hand of God to give repentance and remission of sins unto Israel, and as Testator3 he hath confirmed the Covenant by his death. But of this in the next Chapters.
The Author of this Covenant is God in Jesus Christ: for none can make these promises but God, none can make them good but his Highnesse. Therefore the Lord doth evermore challenge this unto himself, that he is the maker of the Covenant: And as it is1 called our Covenant in respect of the conditions required, Zech. 9. 11. So it is called the Lords Covenant, because he hath made, and will establish it. If ye can break my Covenant of the day, and my Covenant of the night, &c. Then may also my Covenant be broken 2with David my servant. Christ also as Mediatour is both the foundation and Author of this Covenant, as he is appointed of the Father ⟨p. 199⟩Lord and King, advanced at the right hand of God to give repentance and remission of sinnes unto Israel, and as Testatour