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The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…
The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in several discourses / by William Bates.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1691
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.
2. But God has been pleased to mitigate and allay the Severity of the Law by the Gospel; so that although the least breach of it makes a Person an Offender and obnoxious to Judgment, yet the Law of Faith propounds such merciful Conditions to the Guilty, that upon the performance of them, they ⟨p. 168⟩may plead their Pardon sealed with the Blood of their Redeemer, and shall be saved and crowned in the Day of Judgment. We are commanded so to speak and do, 1as they that shall be judged by the Law of Liberty. Thus the Gospel is styled, in that it frees the Conscience, though not from the Obedience, yet from the Terrors and Condemnation of the Law; for there was not the least signification of Mercy by it. But in the Gospel, the Grace of God most illustriously appears.
2. But God has been pleased to mitigate and allay the Severity of the Law by the Gospel; so that although the least breach of it makes a Person an Offender and obnoxious to Judgment, yet the Law of Faith propounds such merciful Conditions to the Guilty, that upon the performance of them, they ⟨p. 168⟩may plead their Pardon seal'd with the Blood of their Redeemer, and shall be saved and crown'd in the Day of Judgment. We are commanded so to speak and do, 1as they that shall be judged by the Law of Liberty. Thus the Gospel is stiled, in that it frees the Conscience, though not from the Obedience, yet from the Terrors and Condemnation of the Law; for there was not the least signification of Mercy by it. But in the Gospel, the Grace of God most illustriously appears.