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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
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3. The condition was made with one, and also accomplished by him alone, and not by several; yet in the nature, and for the everlasting deliverance of many; even by one man Jesus Christ, as it is clear from Rom. 5. 15, 16, 17, &c. and in Zech 9. 11. the Lord saith to Christ, And as for thee; mark, as for thee also, by the blood of the Covenant, or as for thee whose Covenant was by blood; that is, the conditions of the Covenant was, that thou shouldest spill thy blood; which having been done in the account of God (saith he) I according to my condition, have let go the prisoners, or sent them out of the pit wherein was no water; those Scriptures in Galatians the 3. at the 16. and 17. verses that are above cited, are notable to our purpose, the sixteenth verse saith, It was made with Christ; and the seventeenth saith, It was also confirmed in, or ⟨p. 111⟩with God in him, pray read with understanding. Now (saith Paul) the promises were not made unto seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ.—The Law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. Not that the Covenant was with Abraham and Christ together, as two persons that were the undertakers of the same; the promise was made with, or, to Abraham afterwards: but the Covenant with Christ before. Further, that the Covenant was not personally made with Abraham, no, nor with any of the Fathers, neither so as that they were the persons that should stand engaged, to be the accomplishers thereof, either in whole or in part, which is very clear.
3. The condition was made with one, and also accomplished by him alone, and not by several; yet in the nature, and for the everlasting deliverance of many; even by one man Jesus Christ, as it is clear from Rom. 5. 15, 16, 17, &c. and in Zech 9. 11. the Lord saith to Christ, And as for thee; mark, as for thee also, by the blood of the Covenant, or as for thee whose Covenant was by blood; that is, the conditions of the Covenant was, that thou shouldest spill thy blood; which having been done in the account of God (saith he) I according to my condition, have let go the prisoners, or sent them out of the pit wherein was no water; those Scriptures in Galatians the 3. at the 16. and 17. verses that are above cited, are notable to our purpose, the sixteenth verse saith, It was made with Christ; and the seventeenth saith, It was also confirmed in, or