A30345:668
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.
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?
The sixth thing implied is, That Christ God and man is the object of divine adoration. Let all the Angels of heaven worship him. All knees shall bow unto him. All shall honour the Son, as they honour the Father. Ye believe in God, believe also in me, saith our Saviour. In him shall the Gentiles trust. So Steven called upon the Lord Jesus saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. And the Apostles in the entrance of their Epistles desire grace and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, not the Lord of Jesus Christ, as some Heretics would corrupt the text: and so in the shutting up of their Epistles; The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Cor. 15. 23.