A30141:432
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.
Again, If you consider the high esteem that God the father doth set on the death of his Son, you will find that he hath received good content thereby. When the Lord Jesus by way of complaint told his Father, that he and his merits were not valued to the worth; his Father answered, It is a light thing that I should give thee O my servant, to bring Jacob again; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth, Isa. 49. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. As if the Lord ⟨p. 166⟩[…] ⟨p. 167⟩[…] ⟨p. 168⟩had said, My Son, I do value thy death at a higher rate, then that thou shouldest save the Tribes of Israel only; behold the Gentiles, the barbarous Heathens, they also shall be brought in as the price of thy blood. It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant (only) to bring or redeem the Tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the ends of the earth.
Again, If you consider the high esteem that God the father doth set on the death of his Son, you will find that he hath received good content thereby. When the Lord Jesus by way of complaint told his Father, that he and his merits were not valued to the worth; his Father answered, It is a light thing that I should give thee O my servant, to bring Jacob again; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth, Isa. 49. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. As if the Lord ⟨p. 166⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 167⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 168⟩