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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.
§. 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.
§. 3. Though the word [Law] do principally signifie the regulating Imposition of our Duty, and the word Covenant doth principally signifie 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.
As a Law, the parts of it are, 1. The Precept (and Prohibition) constituting our Duty. 2. The Retribution, Premiant and Penal constituting the Dueness of Rewards and Punishments, as the duty is performed or neglected.