An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

4. For want of Scripture-direction, the Papist and Antinomian oppose the mercy of God, but in extreme contrary ways. Though God be merciful, yet he hath so ordained, that none shall partake of his mercies in time, but those who by his grace are enabled to believe and repent, as the way to salvation. Now the Papist injureth the mercy of God, for he will have his Faith, Repentance, with other holy works, the merit and cause of his salvation, disdaining to have eternal life, as mere alms from God. But the Antinomian to avoid this Scylla falls into Charybdis, he affirmeth, a mercy, and that of Justification, even while we are sinners, before we do either believe or repent. But the Scripture-mercy lieth between both.

4. For want of Scripture-direction, the Papist and Antinomian oppose the mercy of God, but in extream contrary wayes. Though God be mercifull, yet he hath so ordained, that none shall partake of his mercies in time, but those who by his grace are inabled to believe and repent, as the way to salvation. Now the Papist injureth the mercy of God, for he will have his Faith, Repentance, with other holy works, the merit and cause of his salvation, disdaining to have eternal life, as meer alms from God. But the Antinomian to avoid this Scilla falls into Charybdis, he affirmeth, a mercy, and that of Justification, even while we are sinners, before we do either believe or repent. But the Scripture-mercy lieth between both.

In the next place, Let us consider, What Practical Danger we are in, by conceiving of God as a merciful God, without Scripture-information. And

In the next place, Let us consider, What Practical Danger we are in, by conceiving of God as a mercifull God, without Scripture-information. And