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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.
It is objected again, that God doth freely remit and pardon sin, therefore he willed not that Christ should make satisfaction: because free remission will not stand with satisfaction. And most sure it is, that God is favourable to our iniquities, Jer. 31. 34. but God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his blood. Rom. 3. 25. Act. 10. 43. Luk. 1. 68, 69, 70.
It is objected againe, that God doth freely remit and pardon sinne, therefore he willed not that Christ should make satisfaction: because free remission will not stand with satisfaction. And most sure it is, that God is favourable to our iniquities, Ier. 31. 34. but God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his bloud. Rom. 3. 25. Act. 10. 43. Luk. 1. 68, 69, 70.
There is a twofold payment of debt: one of the thing altogether1 the same, which was in obligation, and this ipso facto freeth from punishment, whether it be paid by the debtor himself, or by the surety. Another of a thing not altogether the same, which is in the obligation, so that some act of the Creditor or Governor must come unto it, which is called remission: in which case deliverance doth not follow ipso facto upon the satisfaction. And of this kind is the satisfaction of Christ: for in the rigour of the Law, the delinquent himself is in person to suffer the penalty denounced. Every man shall be are his own burden,