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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.
man, that he might suffer, it being no way fit that one having no communion with another, should make satisfaction by suffering for another's fault: Man pure and undefiled, otherwise he could not have satisfied for himself, much less for them that had so grievously offended. He must be man, that he might have compassion on them that come unto God through him: and pure and undefiled, that his Sacrifice being pure and without spot, might be acceptable and pleasing to provoked justice. He must be God that he might bear the weight of Gods wrath without sinking under it, be the King and Head of the Church, defend his people against the enemies of their Salvation, send forth his Spirit into the hearts of his redeemed, and receive from them such divine worship as was due to so great and gracious a Saviour. He must be man, our near kinsman, that he might have right of redemption, be a merciful and faithful high Priest, in all things like unto his brethren. He must be God, that by his death he might overcome death, and him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, free us from the guilt of sin, and curse of the Law, and preserve his redeemed unto his everlasting Kingdom. He must be God and man in one person, and so of a middle condition between God and us, in that both the natures of God and man do concur and are conjoined in his person, that he might join God and man in a firm and stable Covenant of friendship and reconciliation: and be the root, fountain and beginning of supernatural and spiritual being, in whom the whole nat••• of mankind should be found in a more eminent sort then it was in Adam. The horror of sin was so grievous, the curse of the Law so terrible, the price of redemption so great, that a mee• creature could not take away the one, or pay the other: and that man might not fall away as he had done under the former Covenant, our Mediator, who was the foundation of this new Covenant, did assume our humane nature unto his divine person. Therefore ⟨p. 266⟩the eternal Son of God, being ordained of the Father to this office of Mediatorship, that he might intercede between God and man, and join God and man in one, did assume our nature into the unity of his person, and was born of a woman, that he might save and call sinners, and redeem them who were under the Law,1 and shut up under the curse of the Law.