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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
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Here it is questioned, according to which nature Christ is Mediator, whether as man only, or as God and man. That he is a Mediator according to the concurrence of both natures in the unity of his person, it is confessed by all; for if he were not both God and man, he could not mediate between God and man: but whether he be a Mediator according to both natures concurring in the work of Mediation, there be some that make question, Our resolution is, that Christ is Mediator according to both natures, ⟨p. 267⟩the humane nature doing that which pertained to the humanity,1 and the divine nature that which pertained to the divinity, but the humane and divine both concurring to produce one act or work of Mediatorship. As the divine and humane nature concur to make one Christ, so the acts of the divine and humane2 nature, distinct in virtue and operation, by co-operation concur to make up the same work of Mediation. Some of the works of Christ the Mediator, were the works of his humanity in respect of the thing done, and had their efficacy, dignity and value from his divinity, in that they were the works of him that had the divinity dwelling bodily in him: and some the works of his divinity, the humane nature concurring only instrumentally, as the remitting of sins, the giving of the Spirit, the raising of the dead, and such like. The works of Ministry, the Son of God3 performed them in the nature of man. It was the Son of God and Lord of life, that died for us on the Cross, but it was the nature of man, not of God wherein he died. The works of Authority and power were all performed by the divine nature, yet not without an instrumental concurrence of the nature of man. Christ suffered as man, but the divine nature did support and sustain the humane. He died as man, as God he overcame death, conquered, and rose again: as man he was made an offering for our sins, the worth and value of the Sacrifice was from the divinity. The two natures in Christ be distinct in their essence and4 properties, and so in their operations, that we must not imagine one action of both natures: but as the natures be united in one person, so the operations concur to make up one work of a Mediator. Many chief, necessary and essential acts concerning our