A26923:618
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
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.
§. 8. All these actual Mercies given to mankind, contrary to Merit, are a degree of Promulgation of the Law of Grace, telling all the World, That God doth not now rule and judge them merely by the ⟨p. 156⟩Law of Innocency, but upon Terms of Mercy (as is aforesaid)
§. 8. All these actual Mercies given to mankind, contrary to Merit, are a degree of Promulgation of the Law of Grace, telling all the World, That God doth not now rule and judge them meerly by the ⟨p. 156⟩Law of Innocency, but upon Terms of Mercy (as is aforesaid)
§. 9. Hereby it is signified to all the World, that God is as he proclaimed his Name to Moses, Exod. 34. 5, 6, 7. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty (by false judging:) and that the World have no cause to despair of forgiveness, as if they were *under the remediless (or unremedied) Sentence of Damnation.
- *Though this be said before, a new Case here causeth me to repeat it.
§. 10. There are no People on Earth that are not obliged to the use of some means appointed them to be used for their full Pardon and Salvation, else Despair would be their Duty, and they should not be judged Sinners for neglecting any such means. And were they not bound to do any thing for their own Salvation, their Sin and Misery that neglect so to do, would be far less than it is.