Government

By this is meant, when used in a moral sense, God’s dealings with men upon earth. This moral government is according to man’s ways. Governmental dealing does not go beyond earth; its last and most solemn act being the infliction of death, the death of the body. To this act, saints, if not walking aright, are liable (1 Cor. 11:3030For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. (1 Corinthians 11:30); 1 John 5:1616If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. (1 John 5:16)). Governmental dealings, therefore, can be exercised side by side with grace.