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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.
THE DOCTRINE OF THE Law and Grace unfolded: OR, A Discovery of the Law and Grace, the Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other, as they are the two Covenants, &c.
Rom. 6. 14. For ye are not under the Law, but under Grace.
IN the three former Chapters, the Apostle is pleading for the salvation of sinners by Grace, without the Works of the Law, to the end he might confirm the Saints, and also that he might win over all those that did oppose the truth of this Doctrine, or else leave them the more without excuse; and that he might so do, he taketh in hand, First, to show the state of all men naturally, or as they ⟨p. 2⟩come into the world by Generation, saying in the third Chapter, There is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that doth good, &c. As if he had said, It seems there is a Generation of men that think to be saved by the righteousness of the Law, but let me tell them, that they are much deceived, in that they have already sinned against the Law. For by the disobedience of one, many, yea all, was brought into a state of condemnation; Rom. 5. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Now in the sixth Chapter, he doth as if he had turned him round to the Brethren, and said, My Brethren you see now that it is clear and evident, that it is freely by the Grace of Christ, that we do inherit eternal life. And again, for your comfort my brethren, let me tell you, that your condition is wondrous safe, in that you are under Grace, for saith he, Sin shall not have dominion over you, that is, neither the damning power, neither the filthy power, so as to destroy your souls; For you are not under the Law, that is you are not under that, that will damn you for sin; But (you are) under grace, or stand thus in relation to God, that though you have sinned, yet you shall be pardoned. For you are not under the Law, &c. If any should ask what is the meaning of the word [UNDER] I answer, it signifieth you are not held, kept, or shut up by it, so as to appear before God under that administration,