phrase to go unpunished? (c.) What answer is given to this question? How is God said to be affected towards sin? What do you mean by the expression terribly displeased? (d.) How many kinds of sin are here spoken of? What are they? What do you mean by original sin? (e.) What by actual sins? (f.) How do you prove that God is terribly displeased with our original sin? (1.) How. do you prove that he is terribly displeased with our actual sins? (2.) What does the answer say God will do to our sins? What do you mean by punish? (g.) How do you prove, that God will punish our sins? (3.) In what is it said God will punish our sin? What do you mean by his just judgment? (h.) How do you prove, that the judgment by which God punishes sin, is a just judgment? (6.) How is it said God will punish sin? What do you mean by temporally? (i.) What by eternally? (j.) How do you prove, that God punishes sin in this life? (4.) How do you prove, that God will punish sin in the life to come? (5.) What is further added in this answer? What do you mean by the word declared? (k.) What by cursed? (1.) What by continueth? (m.) What by all things? (n.) What by the book of the law? (o.) What by to do them? (p.) Where is the passage quoted found? [Galatians iii. 10.1

Q. 11.-Is not God then also merciful?·

A.-God is indeed merciful, but also just; therefore his justice requires, that sin, which is committed against the most high majesty of God, be also punished with extreme, that is, with everlasting pun, ishment, both of body and soul.

EXPLANATIONS.

a. Merciful, inclined to pity and spare.

b. Just, strictly observant of that which is right. c. Therefore, consequently.

d. Justice, that attribute by which he renders to every one according to his due.

e. Requires, demands..

f. Committed, done.

g. Most high, exceedingly exalted. h. Majesty, dignity; sovereignty.

i Extreme, exceedingly great.

j. Everlasting, having no end; enduring forever.. k. Punishments, pains inflicted on account of crimes committed.

1. Body, the material part of man.

m. Soul, the immaterial and immortal part of man.

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

1. God is merciful. Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7-The Lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and sin.

2. God is also just. Deut. xxxii. 4-A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Psalm lxxxix. 14-Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.

3. Sin is committed against God. thee, thee only have I sinned and sight.

Psalm li. 4-Against done this evil in thy

4. The majesty of God is most high. 1 Chron. xxix. 11 -Thine, O Lord is the greatness and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

5. The justice of God requires sin to be punished. Hab. 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on inquity. Psalm v. 4, 5. Rom. iii. 26-To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that: he might be just, and yet the justifier of him which believ

eth in Jesus.

6. The punishment of sin will be exceedingly great. Rev... xiv. 11-And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. Mark ix. 44, 46, 48-Where their worm. dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

7. The punishment of sin will be everlasting. 2 Thes. i. 9-Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power. Math. xxv. 46-And these shall go away into everlasting punishment.

8. The punishment of sin will be inflicted both upon the body and the soul. Luke xvi. 23, 24-And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

EXERCISES.

What is the eleventh question? What do you mean by merciful? (a.) Does the answer say God is merciful? How do you prove that God is merciful? (1.) What does the answer say God is, besides being merciful? What do you mean by just? (b.) How do you prove that God is also just? (2.) What does the answer say follows from the fact that God is just as well as merciful? What is the meaning of the word therefore in this connection? (c.) What the meaning of justice? (d.) What of requires? (e.) Against whom is sin said to be committed? What do you mean by committed? (f.) What by Majesty? (h.) What by most high? (g.) How do you prove that sin is committed against God? (3.) How do you prove that the majesty of God is most high? (4.) What does the justice of God require with respect to sin? What do you mean by punished? (see quest. 10. g.) How do you prove that the justice of God requires him to punish sin? (5.) With what kind of punishments does the answer say sin is to be punished? What do you mean by extreme? (i.) How do you prove that the punishment of sin will be exceedingly great? (6.) What do you mean by everlasting? (j.) How do you prove that the punishment of sin will be everlasting? (7.) What do you mean by punishments themselves? (k.) What is it said will be punished? What do you mean by body? (1.) What by soul? (m.) How

do you prove, that the punishments of sin will be ininflicted both upon the body and soul? (8.)

V. Lord's Day.

THE SECOND PART.

Of Man's Deliverance,

Q. 12. Since then, by the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, is there no way by which we may escape that punishment, and be again received into favor?

A.-God will have his justice satisfied; and therefore we must make this full satisfaction, either by ourselves or by another.

EXPLANATIONS.

a. Since then, seeing that it is so.

b. Righteous judgment of God, the distribution of his jus tice in strict accordance with the deserts of those who are the objects of it.

c. Deserve, worthy of; merit.

d. Temporal and eternal punishment, the punishment in this life and in the life to come, spoken of in the two previous questions and answers.

e. Way, means; plan, or method.

f. Escape, be delivered from.

g. Received into favor, restored to the state in which man was before the fall, enjoying the approbation of God.

h. Will have, requires as a necessary result of his na

ture.

i. Justice, that attribute of God by which he cannot but

do right.

j. Satisfied, recompensed.

k. Make, render..

1. Full satisfaction, a recompense equal to the demands

of God's justice.

m. Ourselves, in our own person.

n. Another, in the person of some one else.

DOCTRINES SEPARATED AND PROVED.

1. The judgment of God is a righteous judgment. Psalm cxlv. 17-The Lord is righteous in all his ways.

2. We deserve the punishments threatened against us on account of our sins. Rom. i. 32-Who, knowing the judg ment of God, that they which commit such things, are worthy of death.

3. There is a way of escaping the punishment due to our sins and of being again restored to the favor of God. John iii. 16-God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish but have everlasting life.

4. In order to escape the punishment due to our sins and to be restored to God's favor, God will have his justice satisfied. Exodus xx. 5-For I, the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Deut. xxvii. 26-Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.

5. The satisfaction which God's justice requires, ought to have been rendered by ourselves. Ezek. xviii. 4-The soul that sinneth it shall die.

6. In the event of our being unable of ourselves to render the satisfaction which God's justice requires, it must be rendered by another. 2 Cor. v. 21-For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Rom. viii. 3, 4-For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the flesh; That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.