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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.
A Mediator must be a middle person, equally distant, and equally drawing nigh to both parties betwixt whom he doth mediate.1 And thus Christ God incarnate is a fit middle person, for he draws as near to the Father as God, as to us as man, and is as far distant from God as he is man, as he is from us as God: and he comes as near to the Father, as he departeth from us: and comes as near to us, as he doth to the Father.
A Mediatour must be a middle person, equally distant, and equally drawing nigh to both parties betwixt whom he doth mediate.1 And thus Christ God incarnate is a fit middle person, for he draws as neare to the Father as God, as to us as man, and is as farre distant from God as he is man, as he is from us as God: and he comes as neare to the Father, as he departeth from us: and comes as neare to us, as he doth to the Father.
- 1Bellarm. de Christ l. 5. c. 2. §. Praeter•a. Ille solus est verè medius inter Deum & hominem, cum utriusq, naturam habeat.
But Christ as a just man is not so a middle person, for he comes not so nigh to the Father as just, as he doth to us as man; nor is so far distant from us as just, as he comes nigh to us as man. Then as Mediator he should be joined to the Father in will only, but in nature dis-joined: and be distant from man not in nature, but in quality only: then should he be Mediator, not as substantially one with the Father, but only as he is united to him in will.
But Christ as a just man is not so a middle person, for he comes not so nigh to the Father as just, as he doth to us as man; nor is so farre distant from us as just, as he comes nigh to us as man. Then as Mediatour he should be joyned to the Father in will only, but in nature dis-joyned: and be distant from man not in nature, but in quality only: then should he be Mediatour, not as substantially one with the Father, but only as he is united to him in will.