A30345:623
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 also heavenly and glorious: for our Saviour doth not fall upon his knees or prostrate himself before his Father, as in the da•es of his humiliation: for that is not agreeable to that glory he hath received, and to which he is exalted: but after a manner befitting his glory, doth present his good will and pleasure to his Father, that he may thereunto put his seal and consent. It is a praying not out of private charity, as the Saints pray one for another in this life, but out of public office of mediation, by a public person set up, not only to pray for the Church in general, but to present the prayers of particular men to God in their behalf;1 not out of humility, which is a proposing of requests for things unmerited, which we expect of mere grace, according to the free promise of God; but out of authority, which is the desiring of a thing so, as that he hath with all a right jointly of bestowing it, who doth desire it.
It is also heavenly and glorious: for our Saviour doth not fall upon his knees or prostrate himselfe before his Father, as in the da•es of his humiliation: for that is not agreeable to that glory he hath received, and to which he is exalted: but after a manner befitting his glory, doth present his good will and pleasure to his Father, that he may thereunto put his seale and consent. It is a praying not out of private charity, as the Saints pray one for another in this life, but out of publike office of mediation, by a publike person set up, not only to pray for the Church in generall, but to present the prayers of particular men to God in their behalfe;1 not out of humility, which is a proposing of requests for things unmerited, which we expect of meere grace, according to the free promise of God; but out of authority, which is the desiring of a thing so, as that he hath with all a right joyntly of bestowing it, who doth desire it.
- 1Quia enim pij• perpetuò littgandum fit cum Satana, mundo & car•e, ac etiam ipsa lege & ira Dei, ejuso probationibus ac mora in exaudiendo, ipse Spiritus S. illos consolatur & instituit, ut Advocatus in foro clientem. Dicitur ergo Paracletus, Alvocatus & Patroas, qui suo clienti in perculo judicij ad at eum consclatur, instituit, pro eo etiā loquitur & deniq omnibus modis illi patrocinatur.