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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.
This the Son could not relinquish, this he cannot be taken unto, as which doth necessarily agree to him, as God blessed for evermore. What is it then? A right of executing immediately and in a manner appropriate to this person, the sovereign dominion of God, over every creature. This sovereignty is given to the person of the Son both as God and man now ascended: as God, for it is a power which none that is a pure creature can take or execute: As man, because it is given him now ascended into heaven with his humane nature, and is to be executed by him as man; for his man-hood doth concur as an instrument working with his God-head in the administration of it.
This the Son could not relinquish, this he cannot be taken unto, as which doth necessarily agree to him, as God blessed for evermore. What is it then? A right of executing immediately and in a manner appropriate to this person, the soveraigne dominion of God, over every creature. This soveraignty is given to the person of the Sonne both as God and man now ascended: as God, for it is a power which none that is a pure creature can take or execute: As man, because it is given him now ascended into heaven with his humane nature, and is to be executed by him as man; for his man-hood doth concurre as an instrument working with his God-head in the administration of it.
The meaning then of this phrase is not to be admitted to1 equality to the divine nature, for this Christ ever had as God, and could not but have: neither to be admitted into the divine blessedness setledly to enjoy it: for Christ as God ever had and could not but have that essential beatitude. Neither doth it import thus much, That the humane nature of Christ is elevated to this honour, that it may freely use the divine Attributes, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotency, so as to become by them omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent no less properly then the divine, though after a manner far otherwise; the divine nature being thus by natural necessity: the humane being thus by union with the divine, by gracious communication of these unto it, with liberty to2