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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
THE DOCTRINE OF THE Law and Grace unfolded: OR, A Discovery of the… › The Second Thing.
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.
Answ. First, by opening to the soul the spirituality of it; The Law is spiritual (saith he) but I am carnal, sold under sin, Rom. 7. 14. Now the spirituality of the Law is discovered this way.
First, by showing to the soul, that every sinful thought is a sin against it. I sinner, when ⟨p. 190⟩the Law doth, come home indeed upon thy soul in the spirituality of it, it will discover such things to thee to be sins, that now thou lookest over, and regardes•••; that is a remarkable saying of Paul, when he saith, Sin revived, and I died; sin revived, saith he, as if he had said, those things that before I did not value nor regard, but looked upon them to be trifles, to be dead and forgotten; but when the Law was fastened on my soul, it did so raise them from the dead, call them to mind, so muster them before my face, and put such strength into them, that I was over-mastered by them, by the guilt of them. Sin revived, by the commandment, or my sins had mighty strength, life, and abundance of force upon me, because of that; insomuch, that it killed me, Mat. 5. 28.
First, by shewing to the soul, that every sinful thought is a sin against it. I sinner, when ⟨p. 190⟩the Law doth, come home indeed upon thy soul in the spirituality of it, it will discover such things to thee to be sins, that now thou lookest over, and regardes•••; that is a remarkable saying of Paul, when he saith, Sin revived, and I died; sin revived, saith he, as if he had said, those things that before I did not value nor regard, but looked upon them to be trifles, to be dead and forgotten; but when the Law was fastened on my soul, it did so raise them from the dead, call them to mind, so muster them before my face, and put such strength into them, that I was over-mastered by them, by the guilt of them. Sin revived, by the commandment, or my sins had mighty strength, life, and abundance of force upon me, because of that; insomuch, that it killed me,