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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.
Sixthly, A man may do much work for God in his generation, and yet be under this first Covenant, as Jehu, who did do that which God bid him, 2 King. 9, 25, 26. and yet God threateneth even Jehu, because, though he did do the thing that the Lord commanded him; yet he did it not from a right principle; for had he, the Lord would not have said, Yet a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, Hos. 1. 4.
Sixthly, A man may do much work for God in his generation, and yet be under this first Covenant, as Jehu, who did do that which God bid him, 2 King. 9, 25, 26. and yet God threatneth even Jehu, because, though he did do the thing that the Lord commanded him; yet he did it not from a right principle; for had he, the Lord would not have said, Yet a little while and I will a•enge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, Hos. 1. 4.
Seventhly, Men may hear, and fear the servants of the Lord, and reverence them very highly; yea, and when they […], they may not only hear, but hear and do, and that gladly too, not one or two things, but many; ⟨p. 66⟩mark, many things gladly, and yet be lost, and yet be damned (see Mar 6. 20.) For Herod feared John (why? not because he had any civil power over him) but because he was a just man, and holy, and observed him, and when he heard him, he did many things; and heard him gladly; it may be that thou thinkest, that because thou hearest such and such, therefore thou art better than thy neighbours: but know for certain that thou mayest not only hear, but thou mayest hear and do, and that not with a backward will, but gladly; mark, gladly and yet be Herod still, an enemy to the Lord Jesus still: consider this I pray you.