Lord’s Day 4, Chapter 3: The Justice of God’s Mercy

Is not God then also merciful? In this third and last question of Lord's day IV is expressed the final attempt on the part of sinful man to find a way out of his misery without satisfaction and without repentance, to change the living God so as to make it quite safe to sin before His face. The first attempt involved an attack on the right of God to demand of the sinner that which he cannot perform. The second denied God's punitive justice. And in this last question the sinful mind makes the...