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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.
If (some may object) conversion be so the1 work of God, then man doth not repent and believe, but God. But this followeth not: for repentance is the gift of God, but the act of man. God is the cause of willing, efficient, but not formal: the cause external and effective, but not vitally efficient. The determination of God external, and vital volition differ as cause and effect: for he worketh in us to will: but volition doth not work to will: the determination of God as efficient is external, and respecteth the will in the first act of its influx, but vital determination is internal, and respecteth good to be chosen or to be desired.
If (some may object) conversion be so the1 worke of God, then man doth not repent and believe, but God. But this followeth not: for repentance is the gift of God, but the act of man. God is the cause of willing, efficient, but not formall: the cause externall and effective, but not vitally efficient. The determination of God externall, and vitall volition differ as cause and effect: for he worketh in us to will: but volition doth not worke to will: the determination of God as efficient is externall, and respecteth the will in the first act of its influx, but vitall determination is internall, and respecteth good to be chosen or to be desired.
- 1Determinatio Dei est externa, aequiv•ca, no• vitalis, principalis. Humana verò, interna, univoca, vitalis, & subordi•ata. Deus ita utitur voluntate, ut ipsa voluntas sese electivè, vitaliter, & ex practico rationis judicio agat. Deus pr•mò. principaliter & ab aeterno actum liberum, ut futurum, & liberè ponendum determinat, sed non ad alium sed ad •undem numero actum, ad quem voluntas in tempore determinavit lose. Causa actus liberi est potentia determinata non simpliciter potentia. Deus sic movet res necessarias, ut non fiant contingentes: & sic movet res co•tingentes ut voluntarias, ut non adimit eis contingentiam & voluntatem. Quando superior causa est physica & a legesoluta, & inferier morais, & legi subdita, esto quod superior physica influit in inseriorem, tamen si inerior est libera, rea esse potest inerior, & non superior. Virg. Aeneid. 8. & fatty eager volentem.