Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…

Answ. That which was given them to live by: God's 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 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, a remedying Law, by which we might be saved from the deserved Punishment of the Old. So we shall be tried at Judgment 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 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 Judgment though it must be first evinced that we are Sinners, and have deserved Death according to the Law of pure Nature; yet that is not the Upshot of the Judgment. 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.

Answ. That which was given them to live by: God's 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 sutable to our Perfection; when we had sinned and turned from him, as we ceased not to be his Creatures, nor he to be 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, a remedying Law, by which we might be saved from the deserved Punishment of the Old. So we shall be tried at Judgment upon both these Laws, but ultimately upon the last. The first Law commanded perfect Obedience, and threatned 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 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 Judgment though it must be first evinced that we are Sinners, and have deserved Death according to the Law of pure Nature; yet that is not the Upshot of the Judgment. 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.