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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.
For his Qualifications.
First, They must be called thereto of God; No man take this honour upon him, but he that is called of God, as Aaron, Heb. 5. 4. Now Aaron's being called of God to be a Priest, signifies, that Jesus Christ is a Priest of Gods appointment, such a one that God hath chosen, likes of, and hath set on work, called of God an high Priest, &c. ver. 10.
First, They must be called thereto of God; No man take this honour upon him, but he that is called of God, as Aaron, Heb. 5. 4. Now Aarons being called of God to be a Priest, signifies, that Jesus Christ is a Priest of Gods appointment, such a one that God hath chosen, likes of, and hath set on work, called of God an high Priest, &c. ver. 10.
Secondly, The Priests under the Law, they must be men complete, not deformed; Speak unto Aaron saith God to Moses, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations, that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God: for whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach (if he be) a blind man, or a lame man, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, or a man that is broken footed, or broken handed, or crooked backed, or a dwarf, or he that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken: No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the Priest, shall come nigh to offer offerings of the Lord made by fire; he hath a blemish, he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God, Levit. 21. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21. What doth all this signify, but that, in the first place, he must not be lame, to signify he must not go haltingly about the work of our salvation. 2. He must not be blind, to signify, that he must not go ignorantly to work, but he must be quick of understanding in the things of God. 3. He must not be scabbed, to signify, that the Priest must not be corrupt, or filthy in his Office. 4. In a word, he must be every ways complete, to signify to us, that Jesus Christ was to be, and is most complete, and most perfect every way, an acceptable high Priest in things pertaining to God, in reference to this second Covenant.