Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	faith_n	law_n	moral_a	1,475	5	9.2774	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45147	Pacification touching the doctrinal dissent among our united brethren in London being an answer to Mr. Williams and Mr. Lobb both, who have appealed in one point (collected for an error) to this author, for his determination about it : together with some other more necessary points falling in, as also that case of non-resistance, which hath always been a case of that grand concern to the state, and now more especially, in regard to our loyalty to King William, and association to him, resolved, on that occasion / by Mr. John Humfrey.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3697; ESTC R16468	49,303	49

Promise Threat and Obligation of the Law of Works continue under the Gospel is an Error He concludes that the Law of Works not Moral Law is abrogated This Resolution I rest not upon as something dark and too short for how solidly soever he speaks of the Obligation of the Law yet hath he not fully ventured to determined this Point and I think could not do it Mr. Baxter therefore tying not himself to Mr. Lawson's Opinion is singular in his own The Precept and Threat says he is of force but the Promise only ceases This is his brief State of the Point and I think it rare so piercing a Man should take up with it Did Christ come from Heaven to Earth to take on him our Nature and put himself under the Law to obey it perfectly and suffer the Penalty to Redeem us from it and is this all that Freedom that Deliverance we have from it that the Promisa●y part ceases What benefit is there in that We are uncapable to perform the Condition of the Law says he and therefore the Promise is void But neither what this excellent Man says here is true nor is it the thing which should be said It is not the Thing because the delivery of us from the Law which the Scripture speaks of as the Purchase of Christ is the freeing us from the Curse and Condemnation of it To be freed from the Promise what good I say is that And it is not true because the Lord Jesus a Man as we are did perform the Condition and made the Reward thereby due to him of Debt or Merit and accordingly entred into Glory The Man Christ I said in my Sheet was obliged to an Obedience of the Moral Law that he might himself have Right Jure merito foederis operum to Life Eternal Well then you may say if I be not lead by neither of these what is Mr. Humfrey's own Opinion and State of the Point I answer The second Opinion which Mr. Baxter counts Extream and Mr. Lawson says is an Error I take to be Truth and own that the Law of Nature or Works continues wholly as to us in his Precepts Promise and Threat unabolished Do we make void the Law through Faith God forbid yea we establish it I have formerly thus explained and stated my Judgment The Moral Law or Law of Nature is a Law or Rule of Life or Manners in it self consider'd I count without the Sanction that is not Essential to it The Duty which it requires arising from God's Nature and Ours in owing to God if he had made no Promise of Reward or threatned no Punishment for the breach of it and God's putting a Sanction to it makes that Law a Covenant Now in a Covenant there are two Parties and consequently there is Our part and God's part in this Covenant On our part the Law I count being the Law and Covenant of Nature does and must continue unchangeable and Man not performing perfect Obedience and yet bound to it is in the Hand of his Judge otherwise above the Law to dispose of him as he pleases Every Sin against it though the least maketh Punishment due the Threat declares and constitutes a Debitam though not Eventum that is deserves it But as to God's part the Case is alter'd Here is the business We are by this Law or Covenant through our Sin we and all the World in God's hand lyable to Wrath and Condemnation and God as Rector and Judge does stand engaged to deal with us according to it But upon a voluntary and allowed Mediation of his Son and Satisfaction given in our behalf which he might accept to the fulfilling the Ends of the Law better than by Man's Punishment he executes not the Law upon him There are two Reasons upon which when they meet a Law-giver who is also Rector may forbear the Punishing a Criminal One is when the Case is Pittiable and requires Commiseration And the other when his Justice and Honour can be saved also though he spare the Person Such is the Case here If God deal with Man according to this Law all Mankind must Perish which is Pittiable indeed and it pleased him in his Wisdom to find out and in his Goodness to permit and appoint that the Lord Jesus his Son should interpose so as by fulfilling the Law exactly for himself and bearing the Punishment of it also in our stead here is no Dishonour can be cast on himself or Law by his dealing otherwise on his part with us than the Covenant required By this means did God pay its due Respect to his Law seeing as he required at first the Performance of it as the Condition of Life and when it was broke would have his Son re-honour it and fulfil it so he would not pardon the Sinner in point of Justice without an Hostage and Satisfaction But now amends being made him amply by such a Mediator he dispenses with the Penalty as to us so that the Law here becomes not Abrogated nor Ceased but properly Relaxed It is not an Abrogation or Cessation or an Interpretation an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but whatever the Skilful Mr. Lawson says otherwise is a Relaxation or Dispensation so as we shall not be condemned by it The separating between God's part and our part in this Covenant never came into Mr. Lawson's Mind to see this We are not on our part I say freed from the Law that we should no longer obey it or not be liable to Punishment but we are delivered from it by our Redeemer so as to obtain the Mercy that God will not deal with us on his part according to it How then will you say does or will he deal with us I answer by another Law which by the Merit of that Satisfaction he also purchased a Remedying Law the Law of Grace the Covenant of Forgiveness the Law of Faith in opposition to the Law of Works The Lord Jesus hath redeeemed us his Poor Lost Creatures from the Sentence of the Law by which every Mortal else must have perished but he takes the Redeemed into his hands and both the Remedying Law and Law of Nature into his Law the Law of Christ so that they shall not be Lawless for all that They have the Law still as in the Redeemer's hands to live by as well as they can and as far as Humane Frailty will permit but they shall be dealt with in regard to Acceptation according to the Grace of the Gospel The Law then remains in the Precept and Threat as a Rule to Live by but not as the Rule we shall be Judged by a Rule of Life but not of Judgment It is by the Law of Liberty we shall be Judged says St. James and St. Paul expresly According to my Gospel Blessed be God for this Truth What Mr. W. and Mr. Lobb will say of this Determination I may know if they write again but I am not sollicitous about that I am methinks