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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.
but the Scripture showeth plainly, that Christ is our high Priest, according to the order of ⟨p. 280⟩Melchizedek, Psal. 110. 4. Heb. 7. 14, 15. who hath offered up himself a sweet smelling sacrifice, Ephes. 5. 2. and sanctified us by one offering up of himself once for all, Heb. 10. 11, 12. And because the sacrifice of Christ may be considered, either as he offered1 up himself for all the faithful in general, his sheep, and Church, or as every particular faithful man is comprehended under that universality, and the good things purchased for all, tend to the salvation of every singular believer, God would have the first should be shadowed forth by the anniversary sacrifice, and some others which were offered for all the people: the latter by the private sacrifices of every sinner, Lev. 5. Exod. 29. 30. Christ then as Mediator by his death hath made satisfaction for us, and that true, full, real satisfaction, and not by a certain fiction of Law or divine acceptilation, as they call it. For why did God exact the bloody death of his Son, if it had pleased him to rest in any light satisfaction? The Apostle concludes, the sacrifice of Christ to be necessary, because it is impossible the blood of Bulls and Goats should do away sins, Heb. 10. 4. which argument concludes not, if Christ hath satisfied only, as it pleased the Father to accept of his imperfect satisfaction, as if it had been perfect. The satisfaction of Christ was free, because he was freely given to satisfy, but the decree of God presupposed to show his mercy and justice, full satisfaction was necessary: because sin must be punished as the Law requireth, or God is not true as in his promises, so in his threatenings. None other wages is appointed for sin but death,