Question 84

How is the kingdome of heauen opened and shut by the preaching of the Gospel?

When by the commaundement of Christ it is publickely declared to all and euerie one of the faithfull, that all their sinnes are pardoned them of God for the merite of Christ, so often as they imbrace by a liuely faith the promise of the Gospel: but contrarily is denounced to all Infidels & hypocrites, that so long the wrath of God and euerlasting damnation doth lie on them, as they persist in their wickednesse: according to which testimonie of the Gospel, God wil iudge them as wel in this life, as in the life to come.