An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 21. To put all out of doubt, 1. God before hand proclaimed the Name of that God from whom they received their Law, Exod. 34. 6, 7. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping Mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin, though he will by no means clear the guilty. (That is, He will not judge a Sinner to be no Sinner, nor the Wicked to be Godly, nor pardon and save any contrary to the established terms of his Covenant.) 2. And the Law it self hath many express means of forgiveness of Sin appointed, as sacrificing, confessing, &c. which showeth that it was a Law of Grace.

§. 21. To put all out of doubt, 1. God before hand proclaimed the Name of that God from whom they received their Law, Exod. 34. 6, 7. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping Mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgr•ssion and sin, though he will by no means clear the guilty. (That is, He will not judge a Sinner to be no Sinner, nor the Wicked to be Godly, nor pardon and save any contrary to the established terms of his Covenant.) 2. And the Law it self hath many express means of forgiveness of Sin appointed, as sacrificing, confessing, &c. which sheweth that it was a Law of Grace.

§. 22. By the Law, Paul usually meaneth the written Law of Moses, as contained in the very words now in our Bibles: As by the Word of God we usually mean the Scripture. Therefore though it contain much of the Law of Nature, yet as a written Law, and part of a Law of Peculiarity and Policy of that Nation, even the Decalogue may be said to be done away, though as the Law of Nature and of Christ it still remain.