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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.
§. 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.
§. 15. The •receptive part at first was not to Believe as much of Christ, as is necessary since his Ascension; but to Believe what God promised and revealed of him to the Church at that time.