Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

But 2. Truth must be heard as well as Mercy; and she lays in matter of exception, and her Plea was thus; What is God but his Word? Now this was thy word to Adam, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death; and this was thy word to all the Sons of Adam,¹ the soul that sinneth, that soul shall die. And God may not falsify his word: his word is truth; falsify truth? That may not be: all men are liars: but God is true, even truth it self.— This Plea of Truth is seconded by Righteousness; and thus she bespeaks God; shall not the Judge of all the world do right? Thou hast declared thy self over and over to be just and righteous; ²O Lord God of Israel thou art righteous:—Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy Judgments.—Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shall be:—Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy Judgments,—Yea the Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works: and wherein consists this righteousness, but in rendering to every one according to his due? And what is the sinners due, ³but Death? The wages of sin is Death: What shall not those sinners die the Death? That were (as before) to make Truth false, so here to do Right Wrong.

But 2. Truth must be heard as well as Mercy; and she layes in matter of exception, and her Plea was thus; What is God but his Word? Now this was thy word to Adam, In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death; and this was thy word to all the Sons of Adam,¹ the soul that sinneth, that soul shall die. And God may not falsifie his word: his word is truth; falsifie truth? That may not be: all men are liars: but God is true, even truth it self.— This Plea of Truth is seconded by Righteousness; and thus she bespeaks God; shall not the Judge of all the world do right? Thou hast declared thy self over and over to be just and righteous; ²O Lord God of Israel thou art righteous:—Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy Judgments.—Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shall be:—Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy Judgments,—Yea the Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his works: and wherein consists this righteousness, but in rendring to every one according to his due? And what is the sinners due,