A30345:733
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.
Another end remote, is the Salvation of the elect, and the glory of God, in which respect calling to grace is a means ordained of God, and according to the ordinance of God necessary to the communication of Salvation: and the answer of the called, is a condition requisite and necessary for the obtaining of that end, according to the ordinance and appointment of God. The glory of God, most wife, good, merciful▪ just and powerful doth so1 brightly shine forth in the communication both of grace and glory, that it doth worthily draw the minds of men and Angels into admiration, and loose their tongues into the praise and magnifying of God.2
Another end remote, is the Salvation of the elect, and the glory of God, in which respect calling to grace is a meanes ordained of God, and according to the ordinance of God necessary to the communication of Salvation: and the answer of the called, is a condition requisite and necessary for the obtaining of that end, according to the ordinance and appointment of God. The glory of God, most wife, good, mercifull▪ just and powerfull doth so1 brightly shine forth in the communication both of grace and glory, that it doth worthily draw the mindes of men and Angels into admiration, and loose their tongues into the praise and magnifying of God.2
- 1Rev. 4, 8, 9, 10. & 5. 8. 9, 10.
- 2E• si respect• singulorum qui pe•e•nt, optabile esset ut homo non peccasset, respectu tamen universalis boni, c•jus potius habenda fuit ratio, non debuit Deus potentiam suam exrere ad impediendum ne peccaretur.