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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.
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, Gal. 6. 5. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death. So that the Law in the rigour thereof, doth not admit of any commutation, or substitution of one for another. And therefore, that another person suffering may procure a discharge to the person guilty, and be valid to free him, the will, consent and mercy of him to whom the infliction of the punishment belongeth, must concur, which in respect of the debtor is remission; and his over-ruling power2 must dispense, though not with the substance of the Laws demands, yet with the manner of execution, which in respect of the Law is called relaxation. Remission therefore is not repugnant to antecedent satisfaction: but only to that payment of the thing due, which ipso facto doth deliver and set free.
There is a twofold paiment 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 debtour himselfe, or by the surety. Another of a thing not altogether the same, which is in the obligation, so that some act of the Creditour 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 himselfe is in person to suffer the penalty denounced. Every man shall be are his owne burthen, Gal. 6. 5. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death. So that the Law in the rigour thereof, doth not admit of any commutation, or substitution of one for another. And therefore, that another person suffering may procure a discharge to the person guilty, and be valid to free him, the will, consent and mercy of him to whom the infliction of the punishment belongeth, must concurre, which in respect of the debtour is remission; and his over-ruling power