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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 deliverance which we obtain by Christ is called redemption, which was made by the payment of a price, Rom 3. 24. Gal. 3. 13. Ephes. 1. 7. Heb. 9 12. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Matth. 20. 28. Mar. 10. 45. 1 Cor. 6. 20. & 7. 23. and redemption made by a price, can be no other then by satisfaction or substitution, as the Apostle saith, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us, Gal. 3. 13. 1 Tim. 26. Faith and repentance and preaching of the Gospel come betwixt, that we might obtain spiritual deliverance from the captivity of sin: but no man will say, that we are redeemed by them, as by a price whereby we obtain deliverance? In the legal sacrifices sins were expiated no other way but by substitution: how much more was Christ, who is the body of those shadows, substituted for the sins of the faithful? Wherefore the Apostle saith, Christ was appointed to make reconciliation for the sins of the people, Heb. 2. 17. that is, that by expiating the sins of the people, he might pacify God; in the same sense wherein the blood of Christ is said to purge the conscience, Heb. 9. 13, 14. Therefore the Scripture useth those words in this business, which note recompense and subrogation; as [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth both to pacify and reconcile Gen 3. 20 Prov. 16 14. and to recompense or satisfy,