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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
A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE. › Chapter 4: Of the Covenant of Promise.
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Thirdly, that the faithful before Christ were saved by the free mercy of God in Christ, did know God and Christ, had the1 spiritual promise of life eternal, and were equal to us Christians in all substantial graces of the Covenant.
Thirdly, that the faithfull before Christ were saved by the free mercy of God in Christ, did know God and Christ, had the1 spirituall promise of life eternall, and were equall to us Christians in all substantiall graces of the Covenant.
Fourthly, and from the same grounds we may conclude, that the souls of the faithful, who departed this life before the coming of Christ in the flesh, were immediately received into Heaven. For they were taken to glory, and saved as we: Now such as are taken to glory, are taken to Heaven. For the Scripture knoweth1 no place in which God doth ordinarily display his glory, but Heaven. And what should hinder their translation into the heavenly Jerusalem, when they are removed out of this earthly tabernacle? Not their sins, for they which could not hinder them from Sanctification, fitting them for Heaven, could not hinder them from Heaven: Not want of Faith, who now have that faith which Abraham, and many of them had: No want of efficacy in Christ, he was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world, he was yesterday, to day, and for ever; his death was effectual to cause them to find pardon, and the Spirit of Sanctification. Not any privilege of Christ: for not simply to ascend into Heaven was Christs privilege, but to ascend soul and body, as heir