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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.
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.
But to return to the matter in hand, The Covenant of Promise and the new Covenant are so one for substance, that what is in the first for weight and essential, is in all the degrees following, and to be understood, though not mentioned, and whatsoever in any after degree appears as substantial to the Covenant, that was included ⟨p. 32⟩in the first propounding of it but in sundry accidents, which nothing hinder their substantial unity, they are distinguished.
But to returne to the matter in hand, The Covenant of Promise and the new Covenant are so one for substance, that what is in the first for weight and essentiall, is in all the degrees following, and to be understood, though not mentioned, and whatsoever in any after degree appeares as substantiall to the Covenant, that was included ⟨p. 32⟩in the first propounding of it but in sundry accidents, which nothing hinder their substantiall unity, they are distinguished.
First on the part of the Object, Christ exhibited in the New1 Covenant, is promised as to come in the Covenant of promise. For it was meet the promise should go before the Gospel, and be fulfilled in the Gospel, that so great a good might earnestly be desired before it was bestowed, and that the expectation of them that waited for the consolation of Israel might not be frustrated.
First on the part of the Object, Christ exhibited in the New1 Covenant, is promised as to come in the Covenant of promise. For it was meete the promise should goe before the Gospell, and be fulfilled in the Gospell, that so great a good might earnestly be des•red before it was bestowed, and that the expectation of them that waited for the consolation of Israel might not be frustrated.