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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 6
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.
FOR the sixth particular, What Law is it that men shall be Judged by?
FOR the sixth particular, What Law is it that men shall be Iudged by?
Answ. That which was given them to live by: Gods Law is but the sign of his will, to teach us what shall be due from us and to us: Before we fell he gave us such a Law as was suitable to our perfection: when we had sinned and turned from him, as we ceased not to be his creatures, nor he to be ⟨p. 31⟩our Lord, so he destroyed not his Law, nor discharged or absolved us from the duty of our obedience. But because we stood condemned by that Law, and could not be Justified by it, having once Transgressed it, he was pleased to make a Law of Grace, even a new remedying Law, by which we might be saved from the deserved punishment of the Old. So we shall be tried at Judgement upon both these Laws, but ultimately upon the Last. The first Law commanded perfect Obedience, and threatened Death to us if ever we disobeyed; the second Law finding us under the Guilt of sin against the first, doth command us to Repent and Believe in Christ, and so to return to God by him▪ and promiseth us pardon of all our sins upon that Condition, and also if we persevere, everlasting Glory. So that in Judgement, ⟨p. 32⟩though it must first be evinced that we are sinners, and have deserved Death according to the Law of pure nature; yet that is not the upshot of the Judgement. For the enquiry will be next, whether we have accepted the remedy, and so obeyed the Law of grace, and performed its Condition for pardon and salvation; and upon this our Life or Death will depend. It is both these Laws that condemn the wicked, but it is only the Law of grace that justifieth the righteous.