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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.
And as amongst the Jews God manifested so much love to the body of that Nation, as to enter into Covenant with them, and vouchsafe unto them the means of grace, but unto some he showed more special love, so as to call them effectually, and make them heirs of salvation: In like manner in the last times or days of the new Testament God manifested so much love to the world, as it is opposed to the Jewish Nation, as that in the ministry of the Gospel he entreated them to be reconciled, and entered into a Covenant of peace with them: but unto some he bare and manifested more peculiar love, in that he called them effectually, and made them heirs of life. Nevertheless, when these Texts be expounded ⟨p. 211⟩of the days of grace, or times of the new Testament, we must not conceive, that all men now called Gentiles, were in former ages of the Church utterly cast off, and shut out of Covenant, or that the gift of Christ to Jew and Gentile is so restrained to the days of grace, as that he was not given to the faithful, whether Jew or Gentile, in all ages: but that the transcendent love of God in giving his Son to die, and in him receiving the world of Jew and Gentile into the new Covenant is peculiar (specially after the distinction of Jew and Gentile) to the times of the Gospel. This might easily be confirmed, both for the substance of matter, and the sense of these passages, out of their writings that be the stiffest maintainers of the point in hand. See Vorst. Parasc. cap. 4. & 7. Corv. in Moll. cap. 31. § 33. Exam. censur. cap. 8. Vorst. de Deo not. ad disput. 1. Now then let us compare their position, and those texts together, and see whether they consent or dissent one from another.
And as amongst the Jews God manifested so much love to the body of that Nation, as to enter into Covenant with them, and vouchsafe unto them the meanes of grace, but unto some he shewed more speciall love, so as to call them effectually, and make them heires of salvation: In like manner in the last times or daies of the new Testament God manifested so much love to the world, as it is opposed to the Jewish Nation, as that in the ministery of the Gospell he entreated them to be reconciled, and entered into a Covenant of peace with them: but unto some he bare and manifested more peculiar love, in that he called them effectually, and made them heires of life. Neverthelesse, when these Texts be expounded ⟨p. 211⟩