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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.
In Gods effectual power put forth to execute his intention, which he hath of converting some actually before other some. It1 doth not stand in any congruity or temperature of grace, correspondent to our nature. For this doth argue there is inward, an incorrupted, connatural disposition to receive grace. This maketh the effect of Conversion as much, if not more to depend on the active capacity of the will, as on the grace of God: For it maketh the grace of God work it morally and externally by persuasion only, and the will of man from a power within it self, which doth more inwardly enter the effect of Conversion then the other.
In Gods effectuall power put forth to execute his intention, which he hath of converting some actually before other some. It1 doth not stand in any congruity or temperature of grace, correspondent to our nature. For this doth argue there is inward, an incorrupted, connaturall disposition to receive grace. This maketh the effect of Conversion as much, if not more to depend on the active capacity of the will, as on the grace of God: For it maketh the grace of God worke it morally and externally by perswasion only, and the will of man from a power within it selfe, which doth more inwardly enter the effect of Conversion then the other.
- 1Quaestio non est de irresistibilitate, sed de insuperabilitate finali. Nam quomodo traberemur gratia irresistibili, cum id ipsum quod nolumus Deo resistere, •it ipsa Deigratia? Illud ipsum velle resistere, nihil ali•d est quam resistere.
It may be questioned, in what order doth the Spirit make us come unto God, whether immediately, or by some preparation going before? wherein it is further to be considered, what that preparation is, or wherein it consisteth?