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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.
Apud Horat. Sitis argenti. Apud Juvenal. Sitis famae. Apud Claudian. Sitis praed•. And the opposition that is betwixt thirst and water will evidence the same. For water, if we respect the use which it affordeth to the earth and to bodies, doth make fruitful barren fields, purify things polluted, quench or water them that are ⟨p. 349⟩dry, and sweetly refresh them that boil with heat: And therefore if water metaphorically signify comfort and refreshing, wherewith the soul is recreated and rejoiced: Thirst, which is opposite to water, doth denote a soul dried up with grief, spent with the heat of Gods indignation, and tormented with the vexing or molesting want of grace and consolation. To be weary and heavy laden, is to be faint or tired under some burden, labour,1 journey, disease or work. But tiredness and fainting, weariness and trouble are no parts of health or •ase; no more then the sight, feeling, or knowledge of the disease is any part of the cure: weariness and fainting is neither part, degree, nor preparative to refreshing, if in it self considered.
Apud Horat. Sitis argenti. Apud Juvenal. Sitis famae. Apud Claudian. Sitis praed•. And the opposition that is betwixt thirst and water will evidence the same. For water, if we respect the use which it affordeth to the earth and to bodies, doth make fruitfull barren fields, purifie things polluted, q•ench or water them that are ⟨p. 349⟩drie, and sweetly refresh them that boyle with heat: And therefore if water metaphorically signifie comfort and refreshing, wherewith the soul is recreated and rejoyced: Thirst, which is opposite to water, doth denote a soul dried up with grief, spent with the heat of Gods indignation, and tormented with the vexing or molesting want of grace and consolation. To be weary and heavie laden, is to be faint or tired under some burden, labour,1 journey, disease or work. But tirednesse and fainting, wearinesse and trouble are no parts of health or ase; no more then the sight, feeling, or knowledge of the disease is any part of the cure: wearinesse and fainting is neither part, degree, nor preparative to refreshing, if in it self considered.