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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.
And as for the excellencies on earth, they all receive their power from Christ, and are at his dispose: yea the Apostle saith, He is crowned ⟨p. 316⟩with glory and honour, and all things are put under his feet:1 The Apostle speaks of that dominion which Christ received over all the creatures of God, none excepted: but if all things be subjected to the feet of Christ, is not the humane nature every where? No: for the phrase in Scripture is not to be understood of subjection local or corporal, but imperial; sc. that the man Christ is King of heaven and earth, having all things subjected to his command. This power and glory which Christ as man received is not infinite simply, for then it should be the deity it self, which he should not have had in the state of humiliation: but the deity he had before, not by habitual infusion, but by personal union. And if Christ by virtue of the hypostatical union had received all fullness of the God-head, that is, all divine Properties, as some interpret it, it is not possible he should have received greater or more ample glory: for greater then that which is infinite cannot be bestowed. But the Scripture speaketh expressly, that Christ as man was truly and really glorified, or that he obtained that glory and Majesty which before he had not, sc. as man. And if the humane nature be infinite or eternal of necessity the Incarnation of Christ, and sitting at the right hand of the Father must be really the same, if they be not abolished, and the humane nature made equal unto, if not the same with the divine.
And as for the excellencies on earth, they all receive their power from Christ, and are at his dispose: yea the Apostle saith, He is crowned ⟨p. 316⟩with glory and honour, and all things are put under his feet:1 The Apostle speakes of that dominion which Christ received over all the creatures of God, none excepted: but if all things be subjected to the feet of Christ, is not the humane nature every where? No: for the phrase in Scripture is not to be understood of subjection locall or corporall, but imperiall; sc. that the man Christ is King of heaven and earth, having all things subjected to his command. This power and glory which Christ as man received is not infinite simply, for then it should be the deity it selfe, which he should not have had in the state of humiliation: but the deity he had before, not by habituall infusion, but by personall union. And if Christ by vertue of the hypostaticall union had received all fulnesse of the God-head, that is, all divine Properties, as some interpret it, it is not possible he should have received greater or more ample glory: for greater then that which is infinite cannot be bestowed. But the Scripture speaketh expressely, that Christ as man was truly and really glorified, or that he obtained that glory and Majesty which before he had not, sc. as man. And if the humane nature be infinite or eternall of necessity the Incarnation of Christ, and sitting at the right hand of the Father must be really the same, if they be not abolished, and the humane nature made equall unto, if not the same with the divine.