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.

Title

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.

Author

Ball, John, 1585-1640.

Publication

London :: Printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster ...,

1645.

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Subject terms

Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.

Covenant theology.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30345.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Christian Reader.
• To the Reader.
• The Contents of the severall Chapters.
• Errata.
• A TREATISE OF THE Covenant of GRACE.
  • CHAP. I. Of the significations of the word Covenant.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Covenant God made with man in the state of Innocencie.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Covenant of Grace in generall.
  • CHAP. IIII. Of the Covenant of Promise.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Covenant of Promise made with Adam im∣mediately upon his fall.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Covenant of Grace as it was made and manifested to Abraham.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Covenant of Grace under Moses till the returne of Israel from the Babylonish Captivity.
  • CHAP. VIII. A particular explication of the Covenant that God made with Israel, and what Moses brought to the further expressure of the Covenant of Grace.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Covenant that God made with David.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Covenant that God made with Israel, after the Babylonish Captivity.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Truth and Vprightnesse.
  • CHAP. I. Of the New Testament or Covenant, and how God hath revealed himself therein.
  • CHAP. II. Christ the Mediatour of the New Testament for whom he died and rose againe.
  • CHAP. III. How Christ hath fulfilled the office of Mediatour, or how he is the Mediatour of the New Testament.
  • CHAP. IIII. How Christ doth bring his people into Covenant, or fellowship with himselfe.
  • CHAP. V. How Christians answer to the call of Christ, and so come to have Fellowship with him.
• A Table directing to some princi∣pall things in the foregoing Discourse.