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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 as God and man hath power of rule over all things, by the essence of his Deity he is every where; by the essence of his humanity now he is in heaven: but he ruleth every where by the ministries of his domination. Where as man at the right hand of the Father, there he is said to be as man in respect of place: and if where he sits as ruling, there also he be in all places in his body, he is also in his body out of his body: then which nothing is more absurd. Christ is received into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, by a mediatory action, which he executeth according to both natures, the word working what pertaineth to the word, and the flesh what appertaineth to the flesh. Christ is Mediator, as God and man: and glory hath redounded unto him as God and man: and living in this glory he ruleth and governeth his Church as God and man. He ascended into Heaven in his humanity: he sitteth at the right hand of God as Mediator in respect ⟨p. 310⟩of both natures; he worketh together with the Ministers of the word by his divine and every where present efficacy.
Christ as God and man hath power of rule over all things, by the essence of his Deity he is every where; by the essence of his humanity now he is in heaven: but he ruleth every where by the ministeries of his domination. Where as man at the right hand of the Father, there he is said to be as man in respect of place: and if where he sits as ruling, there also he be in all places in his body, he is also in his body out of his body: then which nothing is more absurd. Christ is received into Heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God, by a mediatory action, which he executeth according to both natures, the word working what pertaineth to the word, and the flesh what appertaineth to the flesh. Christ is Mediatour, as God and man: and glory hath redounded unto him as God and man: and living in this glory he ruleth and governeth his Church as God and man. He ascended into Heaven in his humanity: he sitteth at the right hand of God as Mediatour in respect ⟨p. 310⟩of both natures; he worketh together with the Ministers of the word by his divine and every where present efficacy.