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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 Son is willing, he cheerfully submitted unto it. Heb. 10. 9. and freely loved us, and gave himself unto us. Gal. 2. 20. The sinner is willing, and accepteth and relieth upon it. The sum of all is this, By the most wise, just, and merciful will of God, by his own most obedient and voluntary susception, Christ Jesus, being one with us in a manifold and most secret union, and having full power to lay down, and to take up his life again, by special command and allowance of his Father given him, did most justly, without injury to himself, or dishonour to or injustice in his Father, suffer the punishment of their sins, with whom he had so near an union, and who could not themselves have suffered them with obedience in their own persons, or with so much glory to Gods justice, mercy and wisdom. And though the will of God being ever just, is to us a sufficient cause of what God willeth, and the reason thereof be to us unsearchable: yet in this matter we can assign just and weighty reasons of this will of God out of the Scriptures. God will not execute the severity of his Law, because he is merciful, slow to anger, and ready to forgive. His free and everlasting love, and infinite delight which he hath in mercy, disposeth him abundantly to pardon, and exercise loving kindness in the earth. Exod. 34. 7. Micah 7. 18. Jonah 4. 2. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Psal. 86. 5. Psal. 103. 8. Isai. 55. 7. Jer. 9. 24. and 31. 20. Luke 6. 36.