A30141:187
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.
But Secondly, Do you think that there was no change in the five foolish Virgins spoken of in Mat. 25. 1, 2, 3. Yes, there was such a change in them very people, that the five wise ones could give them admittance of walking with them, in the most purer ways and institutions of the Gospel of Christ, and yet but foolish; nay, they walked with them, or shall walk with them, until the Lord Jesus Christ shall break down from Heaven; and yet but foolish Virgins, and yet but under the Law; and so under the Curse, as I said before.
Object. But (say you) we have disowned the Covenant of Works, and turned from that also.
Answ. This is sooner said than done: Alas, alas, poor souls think because they can say grace, grace, it is freely by grace; therefore they are ⟨p. 76⟩under the Covenant of Grace. A very wide mistake; you must understand thus much, that though you be such as can speak of the Grace of the Gospel, yet if you your selves be not brought under the very Covenant of Grace, you are yet notwithstanding your talk and profession, very far wide, of a sense, and of a share in the Covenant of the Grace of God, held forth in the Gospel.
Answ. This is sooner said than done: Alas, alass, poor souls think because they can say grace, grace, it is freely by grace; therefore they are ⟨p. 76⟩under the Covenant of Grace. A very wide mistake; you must understand thus much, that though you be such as can speak of the Grace of the Gospel, yet if you your selves be not brought under the very Covenant of Grace, you are yet notwithstanding your talk and profession, very far wide, of a sense, and of a share in the Covenant of the Grace of God, held forth in the Gospel.