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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 man not converted two things are to be considered; native contumacy, and the not curing of that native contumacy. The native contumacy, is of themselves, as darkness from the earth: the not curing of this contumacy is of God, as a cause physical, because he can cure it, but doth not; but not as a Moral cause, because he is not bound to heal or cure it. The effect of God not curing this native contumacy, is only a negative non-conversion physical or not culpable, as a moral effect. The absence of the sun is the cause why the darkness of the night is not removed, but the darkness it self is not from the sun. Fault is a moral defect, and cannot arise but from a moral cause and deficient. Culpable non-conversion is a consequent of Gods not curing our native contumacy, but no effect thereof, as of a moral cause: because God is not bound to remove it either by Law, debt, justice, promise, or Covenant, and betwixt the resistance of the Spirit, and Gods not-conversion, the free willing of the corrupt will, and voluntary love of native contumacy doth intercede. Not only ability to believe, but belief it self is merited by the death of Christ, and for Christ vouchsafed to them, who are called according to his purpose.
In man not converted two things are to be considered; native contumacy, and the not curing of that native contumacy. The native contumacy, is of themselves, as darknes from the earth: the not curing of this cōtumacy is of God, as a cause physicall, because he can cure it, but doth not; but not as a Morall cause, because he is not bound to heale or cure it. The effect of God not curing this native contumacy, is only a negative non-conversion physicall or not culpable, as a morall effect. The absence of the sunne is the cause why the darknesse of the night is not removed, but the darkenesse it selfe is not from the sunne. Fault is a morall defect, and cannot arise but from a morall cause and deficient. Culpable non-conversion is a consequent of Gods not curing our native contumacy, but no effect thereof, as of a morall cause: because God is not bound to remove it either by Law, debt, justice, promise, or Covenant, and betwixt the resistance of the Spirit, and Gods not-conversion, the free willing of the corrupt will, and voluntary love of native contumacy doth intercede. Not only ability to believe, but beliefe it selfe is merited by the death of Christ, and for Christ vouchsafed to them, who are called according to his purpose.