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The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded, or, A discourse touching the law…
The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded, or, A discourse touching the law and grace the nature of the one and the nature of the other, showing what they are as they are the two covenants ... wherein for the better understanding of the reader there is several questions answered touching the law and grace ... : also several titles set over the several truths contained in this book, for thy sooner finding of them, which are those following the epistle / published by that poor and contemptible creature, John Bunyan of Bedford.The doctrine of the law and grace unfolded, or, A discourse touching the law and grace the nature of the one and the nature of the other, shewing what they are as they are the two covenants ... wherein for the better understanding of the reader there is several questions answered touching the law and grace ... : also several titles set over the several truths contained in this book, for thy sooner finding of them, which are those following the epistle / published by that poor and contemptible creature, John Bunyan of Bedford.
London: printed for Nath. Ponder, 1685
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If thou wouldest then wash thy Face clean, first take a Glass and see where it is dirty; that is, If thou wouldst indeed have thy Sins washed away by the Blood of Christ, labour first to see them in the Glass of the Law, (Jam. 1.) and do not be afraid to see thy besmeared Condition, but look on every Spot thou hast; for he that looks on the foulness of his Face by the halves, vvill wash by the halves: even so he that looks on his Sins by the halves, he vvill seek for Christ by the halves. Reckon thy self therefore, I say, the biggest Sinner in the World, and be persuaded, that there is none worse than thy self; then let the Guilt of it seize on thy Heart, then also go in that case and condition to Jesus Christ, and plunge thy self into his Merits, and the virtue of his Blood; and after that thou shalt speak of the things of the Law, and of the Gospel, experimentally; and the very Language of the Children of God shall feelingly drop from thy Lips, and not till then.
If thou vvouldest then vvash thy Face clean, first take a Glass and see vvhere it is dirty; that is, If thou vvould'st indeed have thy Sins vvashed avvay by the Blood of Christ, labour first to see them in the Glass of the Lavv, (Jam. 1.) and do not be afraid to see thy besmeared Condition, but look on every Spot thou hast; for he that looks on the foulness of his Face by the halfs, vvill vvash by the halfs: even so he that looks on his Sins by the halfs, he vvill seek for Christ by the halfs. Reckon thy self therefore, I say, the biggest Sinner in the World, and be persuaded, that there is none vvorse than thy self; then let the Guilt of it seize on thy Heart, then also go in that case and condition to Jesus Christ, and plunge thy self into his Merits, and the vertue of his Blood; and after that thou shalt speak of the things of the Lavv, and of the Gospel, experimentally; and the very Language of the Children of God shall seelingly drop from thy Lips, and not till then.
Let this therefore learn thee thus much, He that hath not seen his lost Condition, hath not seen a safe Condition; he that did never see himself in the Devils Snare, did never see himself in Christ's Bosom. This my Son was dead, and is alive again. Was lost and is found, with whom we all had our Conversation in time past. But now are (so many of us as believe) returned to Jesus Christ, the chief Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls.