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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 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.
CHAP. XII. Of the several Laws or Covenants of God.
§. 1. Though the order of the matter require, that I should have spoken of the Law of Innocency before I had spoken of Sin and Redemption, yet thinking that the sort of Readers for whom I now especially write, will best understand things, if I treat of all God's Laws together, I will at this time fetch my method from their intended benefit.
§. 1. THough the order of the matter require, that I should have spoken of the Law of Innocency before I had spoken of Sin and Redemption, yet thinking that the sort of Readers for whom I now especially write, will best understand things, if I treat of all God's Laws together, I will at this time fetch my method from their intended benefit.
§. 2. The nature of a Law in general, and of God's Laws in special, I have elsewhere so oft and largely spoken of (pretending somewhat to clear up that Doctrine from several mistakes) that I must here pretermit it.
§. 3. Though the word [Law] do principally signify the regulating Imposition of our Duty, and the word Covenant doth principally signify a mutual Contract; yet it is the same Divine Instrument, which is meant oft and usually in Scripture, by both these Names: (Of which see Grotius at large in his Preface to his Annotations in Nov. Testamentum.) It is called a Law in one respect, and a Covenant in another, but the thing is the same.