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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.
If it be said, the persons for whom Christ prayed were not in a state capable of remission or pardon, because they were impenitent1 and unbelievers, Corvinus answereth, that we must understand the condition, if they repent. And by the same reason, he might ask salvation for all men, scil. if they repent and believe. And how then doth this Intercession differ from that, which they say was special for the Salvation of believers. Surely to ask the pardon of their sins that repent, doth rather pertain to special Intercession whereby the salvation of them that believe is prayed for, then to the general, wherein the faith of all men is craved.
If it be said, the persons for whom Christ prayed were not in a state capable of remission or pardon, because they were impenitent1 and unbeleevers, Corvinus answereth, that we must understand the condition, if they repent. And by the same reason, he might aske salvation for all men, scil. if they repent and beleeve. And how then doth this Intercession differ from that, which they say was speciall for the Salvation of beleevers. Surely to aske the pardon of their sinnes that repent, doth rather pertaine to speciall Intercession whereby the salvation of them that beleeve is prayed for, then to the generall, wherein the faith of all men is craved.
- 1Corvin. in Moll. cap. 27. pag. 7.Corvin. in Mol. cap. 27. pag. 7.
An example of this general Intercession, wherein Christ prayeth that all men might believe in him, we have (they say) ⟨p. 261⟩in that 17. of John, ver. 21. That the world may believe that thou hast sent me. Some by the world in that place understand the elect, who then were dispersed abroad, or them that were to be converted from infidelity to the faith. But because the word world in the whole Chapter is taken in another sense, it is most natural in this place to understand it as before, for men that be of the world, not enlightened, or converted to the faith: and the word Believe to be put improperly for to acknowledge or confess. The sense is, that the world, although unbelieving, although