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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.
The cause that moved the Lord to make this Covenant, was not any worth, dignity or merit in man: for man never had ought, which he had not received; and now by his disobedience, had deserved to be cast off for ever: neither was the present misery into which he had cast himself the cause that moved the Lord to receive man into favour: for the Angels more excellent by creation, as miserable by their fall, he hath reserved in chains of darkness: The sole moving cause, why God made this Covenant,1 was the love, favour and mercy of the Lord. Deut. 7. 7, 8. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, (saith Moses) and he chose their seed after them. Deut. 10. 15. When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live. Ezek. 16. 6. See Ezek. 36. 32. Luk. 1. 54, 55, 72, 78.
The cause that moved the Lord to make this Covenant, was not any worth, dignity or merit in man: for man never had ought, which he had not received; and now by his disobedience, had deserved to be cast off for ever: neither was the present misery into which he had cast himselfe the cause that moved the Lord to receive man into favour: for the Angels more excellent by creation, as miserable by their fall, he hath reserved in chaines of darknesse: The sole moving cause, why God made this Covenant,1 was the love, favour and mercy of the Lord. Deut. 7. 7, 8. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, (saith Moses) and he chose their seed after them. Deut. 10. 15. When I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine owne blood, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live.