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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.
Christ is a King both by the providence, and by the good will and immediate consecration of his Father. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. Joh. 3. 35. He judgeth 1no man, but hath committed all judgement to his Sonne. Joh. 5. 22. that is, hath entrusted him with the actual administration of that power in the Church, which originally belonged unto himself, He hath made him to be Lord and Christ, Act. 2. 36. and raised him up to sit on his throne, ver. 30. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be a Prince, and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel. 2Act 5. 31. He hath ordained him to be a Judge of quick and dead. Act. 10. 4•. He hath appointed him over his own house. Heb. 3. 2, 6. He hath crowned him, and put all things in subjection under his ••it. Heb. 2. 7, 8. He hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name. Phil. 2. 9. Therefore he calleth him my King, set up by him, upon his own holy hill, and that in the virtue of a solemn decree. Psal. 2. 6, 7. Therefore to sit on the right hand of the Father doth not note glory and dominion properly divine, which doth belong to the Son as coessential and coeternal with his Father, and is his by nature: but glory and dominion next unto that which is essentially divine, which belongeth to Christ as Mediator, and which is his not by nature, but by donation and unction from his Father, being made the Head of his Church, a Prince of Peace, and King of Righteousness. This glory and dominion was given unto Christ: and so was not that eternal glory, natural and essential, which he had with his Father before the foundations of the world. This glory Christ had not before his ascension into heaven: but the other as it is natural, so it was from everlasting. Saint Paul and Peter do construe it by reigning immediately over every creature, till the Mystery of our redemption shall be finished,