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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.
§. 25. It is the Wrath to come that Christ delivereth us from, and Hell and the Power of Satan that he redeemed us from: Therefore it seemeth that it was no less that our Sin deserved. And spiritual death is contained in Sin and Apostasy it self.
§. 25. It is the Wrath to come that Christ delivereth us from, and Hell and the Power of Satan that he redeemed us from: Therefore it seemeth that it was no less that our Sin deserved. And spiritual death is contained in Sin and Apostacy it self.
§. 26. What the Reward was to be, besides what I said before from Nature, it is not easy to gather out of Scripture, nor to find there any plainer a Promise of Life; but in both I think it is certainly implied.
§. 26. What the Reward was to be, besides what I said before from Nature, it is not easie to gather out of Scripture, nor to find there any plainer a Promise of Life; but in both I think it is certainly implied.
§. 27. It is ordinary to say, That the Condition of Adam's Confirmation was, That he should have eaten first of the Tree of Life: But to find that among the Commands, much less the Condition with a Promise of Confirmation, requireth more discerning than I have; notwithstanding the words [Lest he eat and live, &c.] from which they gather it.