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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.
Secondly, The world for which Christ died was man-kind considered as fallen in Adam; for unbelief followeth the death of Christ, cannot be precedent to it. But here the world comprehends unbelievers and impenitent in respect of their present state: and not such only as may fall into unbelief and impenitency▪ even such impenitent and obstinate, as the Scripture saith, could not believe, Joh. 12. 39.
Secondly, The world for which Christ died was man-kind considered as fallen in Adam; for unbeliefe followeth the death of Christ, cannot be precedent to it. But here the world comprehends unbeleevers and impenitent in respect of their present state: and not such only as may fall into unbelief and impenitencie▪ even such impenitent and obstinate, as the Scripture saith, could not believe, Joh. 12. 39.
Thirdly, The world for which Christ died, (as they teach) ⟨p. 212⟩doth comprehend every particular man, of what estate or condition soever, in what age of the world soever. But the world in the text doth not comprehend all men of all ages, nor every man of any age yet passed, but the world as it is set against the Jewish Nation only; not comprehending every particular man of the Jews or Gentiles, but so many, and so considered, as they give reason of that opposition. Look in what respects God is said to have chosen the Jews to be his peculiar people in the time of the Law, but now in times of the Gospel to love the world in opposition to that peculiar favour at that time manifested to them alone, in that sense is the world of Jew and Gentile to be understood, and so many comprehended under it.
Thirdly, The world for which Christ died, (as they teach) ⟨p. 212⟩