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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 right hand of God absolutely considered must not so be interpreted, as if it was all one with the phrase of sitting at the right hand of God. For by the right hand of God is signified his power, wisdom, protection, providence, &c. but by the other, the exaltation of Christ, and communication of Majesty and rule, which he may exercise and show forth every where, without the omnipresence of his humane nature. Neither are we to imagine that Christ hath all things or places or times so subjected to himself, that he doth forth-with change their natures by this subjection,1 much less that he doth make them to be and not to be at the same time; as to make all places to be one indivisible title, or all times to be one point: for so it should be divisible and indivisible, the same and not the same together.
The right hand of God absolutely considered must not so be interpreted, as if it was all one with the phrase of sitting at the right hand of God. For by the right hand of God is signified his power, wisedome, protection, providence, &c. but by the other, the exaltation of Christ, and communication of Majesty and rule, which he may exercise and shew forth every where, without the omnipresence of his humane nature. Neither are we to imagine that Christ hath all things or places or times so subjected to himselfe, that he doth forth-with change their natures by this subjection,1 much lesse that he doth make them to be and not to be at the same time; as to make all places to be one indivisible title, or all times to be one point: for so it should be divisible and indivisible, the same and not the same together.
- 1Col. 1. 19. & •. •. Vorst. Deo placuerit in Christo (•.) per Christum, i•habitare totam pleni•udinem, be totam ecclesiam.