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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.
That passage of the Apostle, 1 Joh. 2. 1, 2. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he is the propitiation for our sin: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world, is like to the former, as all men confess, and hath the same answer. For as Christ is our Advocate by office to plead our cause, and defend us against the accusation of all our enemies, so is he our propitiation: But Christ is not the Advocate of every man simply, but of his people. And as he is the propitiation of the believing Jews, so he is of the whole world:1 but he is the propitiation of the believing Jews, in that God is propitious unto them in Christ, and not propitiable or reconcilable only. He is their propitiation through faith in his blood. Rom. 3. 25. by whom their sins are covered, not coverable, and2 expiated and done away, not expiable only. Therefore the Apostle speaks of the application of Christs death, and by the whole world, man-kind in common considered as under the fall cannot be understood, but the whole world of the Gentiles now called to the faith, and admitted into Covenant. Thus Vorstius himself, though in his common places upon this Chapter, he would understand these words, as if Christ sufficiently and efficiently quantum in se was the propitiation for the sins of all mankind: yet in ⟨p. 222⟩his paraphrase, he giveth this sense of the Text; Where fore let3 him consider, that the Lord Jesus is the propitiation for our sins, as who hath purchased full remission of them all for us: And not only for us, who at this time embrace his doctrine, but for all men of the whole world, as many as by faith receive or apprehend the blessing of the Gospel offered unto them. In this sense the world is taken, as they themselves confess, Rom. 11. 12, 15. Their fall is 4