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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.
§. 21. The supernatural part of the Law is known to us only by Scripture, but perhaps the Fathers before the Flood might know more of it by Tradition, than God hath thought meet to write for our times.
§. 22. The preceptive part was the not eating the forbidden Fruit, and consequently the overcoming all Temptations thereto: The Law of Matrimony and the Sabbath also, are partly supernatural (called Positive.)
§. 23. The Penalty is called Death, which signifieth Undoing and Misery: But whether it was only temporal Death or also Hell, Divines are not agreed. They that are for the former, seem chiefly drawn to it, by comparing the Law with the ⟨p. 119⟩Judgment and Execution, thinking it indecent to say, that God fulfilled not his Threatening, but dispensed with it: And therefore seeing Temporal Death only is in the Sentence and Execution, they think that no more was meant: And consequently that Christ did not by Redemption, prevent the sentence and execution of that Death, but only when it was fulfilled, deliver us from continuance under it by a Resurrection.
§. 23. The Penalty is called Death, which signifieth Undoing and Misery: But whether it was only temporal Death or also Hell, Divines are not agreed. They that are for the former, seem chiefly drawn to it, by comparing the Law with the ⟨p. 119⟩Iudgment and Execution, thinking it indecent to say, that God fulfilled not his Threatning, but dispensed with it: And therefore seeing Temporal Death only is in the Sentence and Execution, they think that no more was meant: And consequently that Christ did not by Redemption, prevent the sentence and execution of that Death, but only when it was fulfilled, deliver us from continuance under it by a Resurrection.