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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.
Thirdly, They may attain to speak of the word as Ministers, and become preachers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in so much that the people where they dwell, may even take up a Proverb concerning them, saying, Is he among the Prophets? his gifts may be so rare, his tongue may be so fluent, and his matter may be so fit, that he may speak with a tongue like an Angel, and speak of the hidden mysteries, yea, of them all; mark that (1 Cor. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4.) and yet ⟨p. 68⟩be nothing, and yet be none of the Lords anointed ones, with the Spirit of grace savingly, but may live and die under the Curse of the Law.
Fourthly, They may go yet further; they may have the gifts of the Spirit of God, which may enable them to cast out Devils, to remove the biggest Hills or Mountains in the World; nay, thou mayest be so gifted as to prophesy of things to come, the most glorious things, even the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign over all his enemies, and yet be but a Balaam, a wicked and a mad Prophet, see 2 Pet. 2. 16. Numb. 24. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.
Fourthly, They may go yet further; they may have the gifts of the Spirit of God, which may inable them to cast out Devils, to remove the biggest Hills or Mountains in the World; nay, thou mayest be so gifted as to prephesie of things to come, the most glorious things, even the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign over all his enemies, and yet be but a Balaam, a wicked and a mad Prophet, see 2 Pet. 2. 16. Numb. 24. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.