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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.
§. 12. This is not the obligation of the Law or Covenant of Innocency; for that Law bound us only as Innocent to keep our Innocency and perfectly therein obey: But it giveth no pardon, nor appointeth Man any Duty in order to pardon and recovery: Whatever doth this, is a Law of Grace.
§. 13. The sum of that Duty which the Law of Nature now obligeth Man to, is, To consider of all the Mercies which God vouchsafeth Sinners, and thankfully to improve them; to repent of sin, and turn to this God, who showeth himself a merciful ⟨p. 130⟩•ae•doni•g God; To resign themselves to him as their Owner, to obey him as their Ruler, and to love and seek him as their ultimate End; and to believe that his Mercy will not let us be losers in so doing, nor to do it in vain.
§. 13. The sum of that Duty which the Law of Nature now obligeth Man to, is, To consider of all the Mercies which God vouchsafeth Sinners, and thankfully to improve them; to repent of sin, and turn to this God, who sheweth himself a merciful ⟨p. 130⟩•ae•doni•g God; To resign themselves to him as their Owner, to obey him as their Ruler, and to love and seek him as their ultimate End; and to believe that his Mercy will not let us be losers in so doing, nor to do it in vain.
§. 14. But the Supernatural Revelation telleth us much more than all this, Of the promised Seed, the means of our Salvation, and of our Duty in believing them, and of the Certainty and Nature of the Pardon, Deliverance, and Blessedness which we shall attain.