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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 3: Of the Law or Covenant of Grace in the first Edition.
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.
§. 1. AS God delivered the Law of Innocency partly by natural and real, and partly by supernatural and verbal significations of his will, so hath he done the Law of Grace; which is the ⟨p. 127⟩signification of his Will concerning Pardon and Life granted to guilty Sinners, and the terms thereof.
§. 2. The Promise, Gen. 3. 15. The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head, &c. was a Breviate of the supernatural signification; but it is not unlikely, that God did more fully acquaint them with his Law of Grace and Redemption, than those words alone could make us understand: Because we find in their sacrificing, some such intimation; (and in other signs.)
§. 3. God's actual Continuance of forfeited Life, Liberty, Health, and other comforts, and his actual Collation of many great Mercies by the course of Nature, to such as by Sin have deserved present Damnation, is a degree of signification of his pardoning will and mercy by these natural signs: (which they were not before sin and forfeiture.)