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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.
The company of them that are called effectually is the Church, which is visible and invisible, as this vocation is inward and outward;1 visible, which doth profess with the mouth, and invisible, which doth believe with the heart: as man is distinguished2 into inward and outward. And as vocation inward and outward are not two callings, but one and the same: so the Church visible and invisible are not two Churches, but the same Church differently considered. Christ hath not two Kingdoms, but3 one Kingdom, one body, one Church, whereof every one that is savingly called is a living member.
The company of them that are called effectually is the Church, which is visible and invisible, as this vocation is inward and outward;1 visible, which doth professe with the mouth, and invisible, which doth believe with the heart: as man is distinguished2 into inward and outward. And as vocation inward and outward are not two callings, but one and the same: so the Church visible and invisible are not two Churches, but the same Church differently considered. Christ hath not two Kingdomes, but3 one Kingdome, one body, one Church, whereof every one that is savingly called is a living member.
- 1Rom. 10. 10.
- 21 Cor. 4. 16.
- 3There is but one Lord, one Temple, one Ministery. Hieron. ad Nepotian. de vit. Cler. Bilson. Perpet. govern. cap. 11.