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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.
It is the principle as well as the practice, that shall be enquired into at that day.
Quest. The principle (you will say) what do you mean by that?
Answ. My meaning is, the Lord Jesus Christ will then enquire and examine, whether the Spirit from which you acted, was Legal, or Evangelical; that is, whether it was the spirit of adoption, that did draw you out to the thing you took in hand, or a mere moral principle, together with some shallow and common illuminations into the outward way of the Worship of God, according to Gospel rule.
Answ. My meaning is, the Lord Jesus Christ will then enquire and examine, whether the Spirit from which you acted, was Legal, or Evangelical; that is, whether it was the spirit of adoption, that did draw you out to the thing you took in hand, or a meer moral principle, together with some shallow and common illuminations into the outward way of the Worship of God, according to Gospel rule.
Quest. But (you will say its like) how should this be made manifest, and appear?