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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.
Touching the punishments which Christ suffered, they were not ordinary, but beyond measure grievous, bitter and unsupportable; yea, such as would have made any mere creature to sink down under the burden of them to the bottom of hell. For he ⟨p. 282⟩suffered grievous things from all the things in heaven, earth and hell. He suffered at the hands of God his Father, and of men; of Jews, of Gentiles, of enemies insulting, of friends forsaking, of the Prince of darkness, and all his cruel and merciless instruments. But whereas of the punishments of sin, some be sins and punishments both, others punishments only: and some common to the nature of man, others personal growing out of some imperfection and defect in the virtue and faculty forming the body, disorder in diet, or some violence offered: and some for sin inherent, others for sin imputed: Our Saviour Christ suffered the punishments that are only punishments, and not sin, common to the whole nature of man, not personal to this or that man; the punishments of the sins of other men, not his own, and that of them that should break off their sins by repentance, not of them that would sin for ever, if they might live for ever. The whole life of our Saviour was a life of suffering, but his special sufferings were those he endured in the Garden, or upon the cross. In the Garden he was in an agony: upon the cross he was pressed with the weight of grievous and unsupportable evils. His agony was that sorrow, wherein his soul was beset round with heaviness and fear even unto death. Thus the Evangelists describe it, He began to be sorrowful, and very heavy. 1Then saith he to them, scil. Peter, James and John, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. He began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful 2unto death. Now is my soul troubled. His soul was smitten with horror, that all powers and faculties for a time left their proper functions, and did concur to relieve nature in that extremity; as when a man hath received some ghastly wound, the blood doth at first retire to comfort the heart.
Touching the punishments which Christ suffered, they were not ordinary, but beyond measure grievous, bitter and unsupportable; yea, such as would have made any meere creature to sinke down under the burthen of them to the bottome of hell. For he