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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 fall of our first parents was occasion of this Covenant: for1 God suffered him to slip, that he might manifest the riches of his mercy in mans recovery. Mercy freeing man from misery possible might have taken place before transgression, and have discovered it self in the preventing of sin, and so of misery: but it seemed good unto Almighty God to suffer misery to enter upon man through sin, that he might make known the infinite riches of his mercy, in succouring and lifting him up, being fallen and plunged into a state remediless and desperate for ought he knew. Besides, we may conceive, that Almighty God, upon just grounds disdaining, that such a base creature fallen by pride, should thus upon advantage of the mutability of his reasonable creature, ruinate the whole frame of the Creation, and trample the glory of his name under foot: and withal looking upon the Chaos which sin had brought, and would further make, if some speedy remedy was not provided; did out of his infinite and boundless love to man (though in the transgression,) and just and dreadful indignation against Satan, give forth this gracious and free Covenant.
The fall of our first parents was occasion of this Covenant: for1 God suffered him to slip, that he might manifest the riches of his mercy in mans recovery. Mercy freeing man from misery possible might have taken place before transgression, and have discovered it selfe in the preventing of sinne, and so of misery: but it seemed good unto Almighty God to suffer misery to enter upon man through sinne, that he might make knowne the infinite riches of his mercy, in succouring and lifting him up, being fallen and plunged into a state remedilesse and desperate for ought he knew. Besides, we may conceive, that Almighty God, upon just grounds disdaining, that such a base creature falne by pride, should thus upon advantage of the mutability of his reasonable creature, ruinate the whole frame of the Creation, and trample the glory of his name under foot: and withall looking upon the Chaos which sinne had brought, and would further make, if some speedy remedy was not provided; did out of his infinite and boundlesse love to man (though in the transgression,) and just and dreadfull indignation against Sathan, give forth this gratious and free Covenant.
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