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John Ball

Born: 1585
Died: 1640

English Puritan minister at Whitmore in Staffordshire, a nonconforming clergyman and teacher whose catechism and posthumously published Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (1645) shaped the covenant theology of the Westminster divines.

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No portrait of John Ball is known; shown: the title page of his Treatise of the Covenant of Grace (London, 1645)

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A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace1645

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A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace

John Ball's posthumous treatise on covenant theology, tracing the covenant of grace from Adam through the patriarchs, Moses and the prophets to Christ, contrasting it with the covenant of works and answering Arminian positions. A key source for the Westminster divines. Seventeenth-century spelling retained.

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