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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 this stay came not from any internal defect, which had been sinful, but from an external cause, to wit, the horror which fell upon him, as the wheels of a Watch may cease from motion without any fault in them, when they are stayed by the hand of the Artificer. He feared also the stroke of the justice of God his Father, sitting on the Tribunal or Judgement seat, to punish the sins of men, for whom he stood forth to answer; this he feared, as a thing impossible to be escaped, in respect of the resolution and purpose of God his Father, that by his satisfactory death, and no other way, man should be ⟨p. 283⟩delivered. And he declined everlasting destruction, as a thing he knew he should escape without all doubt or uncertainty of event, though not without conflicting with the temptations of Satan, and the enduring of many grievous and bitter things.
But this stay came not from any internall defect, which had been sinfull, but from an externall cause, to wit, the horrour which fell upon him, as the wheeles of a Watch may cease from motion without any fault in them, when they are stayed by the hand of the Artificer. He feared also the stroke of the justice of God his Father, sitting on the Tribunall or Judgement seat, to punish the sins of men, for whom he stood forth to answer; this he feared, as a thing impossible to be escaped, in respect of the resolution and purpose of God his Father, that by his satisfactory death, and no other way, man should be ⟨p. 283⟩delivered. And he declined everlasting destruction, as a thing he knew he should escape without all doubt or uncertaintie of event, though not without conflicting with the temptations of Sathan, and the enduring of many grievous and bitter things.
These passions in Christ were most pure, because he himself was most free from all taint of sin, as if you put clear water into a clear glass, though you shake and stir it never so much, it will raise no mud.