113. What is here understood by mercy?
Every blessing for soul and body, now and forever.
1 Tim. 4:8. Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
114. What way of salvation does the Law then point out to us?
It says, Keep the commandments and you shall be saved.
Luke 10:28. This do, and thou shalt live.
115. Can any man, then, keep God's commandments so perfectly that he thereby is justified and saved?
No; every man is a sinner, and he lacks that perfect love which is the fulfillment of the law.