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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.
The place where Christ fits at the right hand of his Father, in respect of his Humanity, is in heaven: because where that is, there it is also inwardly glorious in it self, and hath in it self,1 as in a subject, his power, and worketh by that power within the sphere of it finiteness, not severally from the word, but with it, and in it. He is at the right hand of God in the heavens, Ephes. 1. 20. in the highest places, Heb. 1. 3, 8. above, Col. 3. 1. This his Sovereignty is a consequent following on his Ascension into Heaven. Look as Kings are crowned in the chief Cities of their Kingdoms, and keep their residence in their Palaces near unto them: so it was decent that our Saviour should be crowned in this heavenly Jerusalem, and keep his residence as it were in his heavenly Mansion. There Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, where he appeareth for us, where he maketh intercession for us: But Christ appeareth for us in Heaven: Heb. 9. 24. and 8. 4. and in Heaven he maketh request for us, and from Heaven we2 expect the Lord Jesus. Phil. 3. 21. God is infinite, Heaven is his ⟨p. 309⟩throne, and the earth his footstool: but the humanity of Christ is finite, and not every where present: Christ is ascended above these visible heavens, above them and without them, but he sitteth at the right hand of the Father in the highest heavens, above them, not without them. So the Cherubims were over the Ark3 of the Covenant, and yet they stayed upon the Ark, as the place. Heaven is one thing, heavenly glory another,4