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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.
Thirdly, He is entered into heaven, appeareth before the Father, and maketh request for his people: unto which there is pre-required a power and prevalence over all his enemies, to break through the guilt of sin, the curse of the Law, and the chains of death, with which it was impossible that he should be held. And this power of Christ was showed in his Resurrection, wherein he was declared to be the Son of God with power, Rom. 1. 4. and in his ascension, wherein he led all his enemies captives, Ephes. 4. 8. and ⟨p. 295⟩in his sitting at the right hand of God, far above all principalities and powers, Ephes. 1. 19, 20. All which did make way to the presenting of his Sacrifice before the Mercy-seat, which is the consummation of it, and without which he had not been a Priest. We have such an high Priest (saith the Apostle) as is set down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heavens, for if he were on earth he should not be a Priest, seeing that there are Priests which offer gifts according to the Law, Heb. 8. 1, 4. Christ our high Priest having offered up himself an expiatory Sacrifice once for all, by his divine power rose again from the dead, and is entered into the very heavens, to appear in the presence of God for us, Heb. 9. 24.1 It was the same continued action, whereby the Priest did offer without the holy place, and did then bring the blood into the holiest of all, Heb. 13. 11. For the reason why it was shed was to present it to the mercy-seat, and to show it unto the Lord there.2 So Christs act or office was not ended, nor fit to denominate him a complete Priest, till he did enter with blood and present his offering in the holiest of all not made with hands,