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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
Chapter 12 › Section 1: Of the Law or Covenant of Innocency made to Adam.
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.
SECT. I. Of the Law or Covenant of Innocency made to Adam.
§. 1. I Shall in this order Treat briefly of the Divine Laws. I. Of the Law of Innocency to Adam. II. Of the Law of Mediation to Christ. III. Of the Law of Grace to fallen Man. And there, 1. As in the first Edition to Adam and Noah: 2. As in the same Edition joined with the Jewish Law of Peculiarity to Abraham, and of Works by Moses to Abraham's Seed. 3. Of the Law of Graces as in the second Edition by Christ:
§. 1. I Shall in this order Treat briefly of the Divine Laws. I. Of the Law of Innocency to Adam. II. Of the Law of Mediation to Christ. III. Of the Law of Grace to fallen Man. And there, 1. As in the first Edition to Adam and Noah: 2. As in the same Edition joined with the Jewish Law of Peculiarily to Abraham, and of Works by Moses to Abraham's Seed. 3. Of the Law of Graces as in the second Edition by Christ:
§. 2. 1. The Law of Innocency contained a Precept and Prohibition, and a Retributive part to which Adam was bound to be a Voluntary Subject, and therefore to Consent (which will allow it the name of a Covenant.) But here the brief Narrative in the Scripture calleth to us to distinguish of things certain, and things uncertain (whoever assert them.)