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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.
This vocation is instituted and administered according to the eternal decree and purpose of God: for known unto God are all1 his works from eternity: and God doth nothing in time, which he decreed not to do from all eternity. Whosoever therefore is2 called in time, he was predestinated from eternity, that he should be called, and in what state, place, time, manner, means soever a man is called, he was predestinated to be called in that state, at that time, by those means, and neither sooner, nor later, nor otherwise: for the execution cannot vary from the decree, but the note of changeableness must be ascribed unto God.
This vocation is instituted and administred according to the eternall decree and purpose of God: for knowne unto God are all1 his workes from eternity: and God doth nothing in time, which he decreed not to doe from all eternity. Whosoever therefore is2 called in time, he was predestinated from eternity, that he should be called, and in what state, place, time, manner, meanes soever a man is called, he was predestinated to be called in that state, at that time, by those meanes, and neither sooner, nor later, nor otherwise: for the execution cannot vary from the decree, but the note of changeablenesse must be ascribed unto God.