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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.
washed and so redeemed, washed with remission of sins, and so redeemed from sin, inchoately: but because she returneth to the filth of sin, that remission is confirmed, neither in the hour of death, nor at the day of Judgement. The false Prophets were bought as they ⟨p. 241⟩believed. Had they believed effectually with a sovereign, well-rooted1 affiance, they had been bought saving-effectually: as they believed superficially, so they were bought in act and event, but not unto Salvation. The purchase of redemption goeth before faith, is not made by faith, but applied only: but it is most assured, if men believe unfeignedly, they are redeemed effectually, if they believe not, they are not redeemed: for them that be cast off as aliens, we do not read that redemption was purchased. This interpretation will not seem new, nor strained to them that shall weigh the circumstances of the Text, not to them that urge it, when they shall consider it is their own. It agreeth well with the scope of the Apostle, which is to show the fearful condition of such false teachers, because they in life denied the Lord that had called them into Covenant, which they had accepted, whom they had embraced by faith, by whom they were delivered from the pollutions of the world, in whom if they had believed unfeignedly, without question, they should have been saved: and whom wilfully, not of frailty, they had denied. And is not this a good argument to prove, that by their wilful departure they had brought upon themselves swift damnation. If they were never the nearer heaven by ought Christ had done, the fault was their own: for life was truly promised unto them, whereof they deprived themselves, not because they could not do otherwise, but because they would not receive it, or having received it in part, they voluntarily fell off. What though God never purposed to make them actual partakers of the saving benefits of Christs death? By his commandment he bound them to believe, by promise he assured them of Salvation if they did believe, he bestowed upon them many spiritual gifts the fruits of Christs death; and if they fell away, God was no cause efficient or deficient of their revolt: And doth not all this conclude their sin to be out of measure sinful in denying the Lord that bought them.
washed and so redeemed, washed with remission of sinnes, and so redeemed from sinne, inchoately: but because she returneth to the filth of sinne, that remission is confirmed, neither in the houre of death, nor at the day of Judgement. The false Prophets were bought as they