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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.
But secondly, Though this Law was delivered to Moses from the hands of Angels in two Tables of Stone on Mount Sinai; yet this was not the first appearing of this Law to Man; but even this in substance (tho possibly not so openly) was given to the first Man Adam, in the garden of Eden, in these words, And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every Tree in the Garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die, Gen. 2. 16, 17. Which Commandment then given to Adam, did contain in it, a forbidding to do any one of those things, that was and is accounted evil, although ⟨p. 8⟩at that time it did not appear so plainly, in so many particular heads, as it did when it was delivered on Mount Sinai: but yet the very same, and that I shall prove thus.
God commanded Adam in Paradise to abstain from all evil against the first Covenant, and not from some sins only: but if God had not commanded Adam to abstain from the sins spoken against the Ten Commandments, he had not commanded to abstain from all, but from some; therefore it must needs be, that he then commanded to abstain from all sins forbidden in the Law given on Mount Sinai. Now that God commanded to abstain from all evil, or sin, against any of the Ten Commandments, when he gave Adam the Command in the Garden, it is evident, in that he did punish the sins that was committed against those Commands, that was then delivered on Mount Sinai, before they were delivered on Mount Sinai, which will appear as followeth.