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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.
The1 bounds of the Church are now extended to all nations, and all men are invited to repentance, that they might live.
- 1Neque hic amplius secundum legalis umbrae, tipicique cultus a• gustias audiemus, Non intrabit Ammonita in ecclesian Dei, aut Moabita. Audimus autem, I•e, & docete omnes gentes. Isai. 54. 13. Jer. 31, 34. Heb. 8. 11. 1 Joh. 20. 1 Joh. 2. 21, 24.
It may be questioned, whether the word be not fruitless and unprofitable, seeing the Lord promiseth in Covenant, that men should not teach every man his neighbour, but they should be all taught of God. But the internal teaching of the holy Ghost, is not to be severed from external instruction by the holy Scripture: for then it should follow, that the Scriptures were written in vain, that in vain we were exhorted to read the Scriptures, yea to give attendance to reading, exhortation and doctrine; and that the ministry of the Word was altogether fruitless. But the Apostles themselves plainly declare, that the reading of the Scriptures, and ministry of the Word, and writing to them that were anointed by the spirit, was not useless and unprofitable. Such passages of Scripture then are to be understood comparatively, and not as simple negations, and show what plenty of knowledge1 God would pour upon his Church in the times of the new Testament, leading the true children of the Church by his blessed Spirit into all truth necessary to Salvation. The like phrases are often found in the Scriptures, and the adversitive particle [but] is not put as exceptive: But the anointing, i. e. except as.