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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.
Hence it is that Christ-man doth give graces authoritativè & effectivè, yea according to humane action doth effect them in the highest degree that an instrumental operation can effect any thing.
Hence it is that Christ-man doth give graces authoritativè & effectivè, yea according to humane action doth effect them in the highest degree that an instrumentall operation can effect any thing.
St Paul gives graces by laying on of hands with prayer, ministerialiter, not as his work, but as entreating it from God in Christ, and signifying what God doth in Christ; not from any power any way within his person, but the power of another; not as conjoined with God, as the body with the soul, but as an instrument with God. Christ the Head of his Church is over all, to whom all things are subject. He who must be a saving head to us, there is great need he should be over all. Could he not bind that strong one, and cause him re-deliver his possession, how should we ever be set at liberty? Could he not dissolve the work of Satan, swallow up death, create life and quickening in us, our case were lamentable?
St Paul gives graces by laying on of hands with prayer, ministerialiter, not as his worke, but as intreating it from God in Christ, and signifying what God doth in Christ; not from any power any way within his person, but the power of another; not as conjoyned with God, as the body with the soule, but as an instrument with God. Christ the Head of his Church is over all, to whom all things are subject. He who must be a saving head to us, there is great need he should be over all. Could he not bind that strong one, and cause him re-deliver his possession, how should we ever be set at liberty? Could he not dissolve the worke of Satan, swallow up death, create life and quickning in us, our case were lamentable?