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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 5: Of the Law or Covenant of Grace in the last Edition, or the Gospel.
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.
§. 39. Accordingly a great Question must be determined, Whether the sins of the Faithful deserve any more than a temporal Chastisement? And whether they may pray for pardon of perpetual punishment, or need any such pardon? Ans. The sins of the Godly deserve everlasting punishment in the second Sense, or Degree of Desert or Dueness; which is so far as to need a Saviour and Pardon, and so as they must pray for, and receive that pardon: ⟨p. 154⟩But not in the first or third Sense.
§. 39. Accordingly a great Question must be determined, Whether the sins of the Faithful deserve any more than a temporal Chastisement? And whether they may pray for pardon of perpetual punishment, or need any such pardon? Ans. The sins of the Godly deserve everlasting punishment in the second Sence, or Degree of Desert or Dueness; which is so far as to need a Saviour and Pardon, and so as they must pray for, and receive that pardon: ⟨p. 154⟩But not in the first or third Sence.
§. 40. It is the Law of Christ, or of Grace, which is norma officit & judicii, and by which we must be judged at the last day.
§. 41. It is of great importance in the Controversies of Justification, to know whether, or how far we shall be judged by the Law of Innocency, or whether only by the Law of Grace.