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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.
First, Here a believer seeth he shall stand, if Christs doings and sufferings stand (which is a sure Foundation) for God dealeth with him through Christ. And so Secondly, He shall not fall, unless the sufferings and merits of Christ be thrown over the bar, being found guilty (which will never be) before the eyes of divine justice. For with him the Covenant was made, and he was the surety of it, Zech. 9. 11. Heb. 7. 22. That is, as the Covenant was made with him, so he stood bound to fulfil the same. For you must understand that the Covenant was made between the Father and the Son, long before it was accomplished, or manifestly sealed with Christs blood, it was made before the world began, (Tit. 1. 2. Ephes. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19, 20.) But the conditions thereof was not fulfilled, until less than Two Thousand Years ago; and all that while did Jesus stand bound as a surety (as I said before) is used to do, till the time in which the payment should be made. And it was by virtue of his ⟨p. 228⟩suretyship (having bound himself by Covenant to do all things agreed on, by the Father and him) that all those of the election that were born before he came, that they might be saved, and did enter into rest. For the forgiveness of sins that was past, though it was through the blood of Christ; yet it was also through the for bearance of God, Rom. 3. 25. That is, Christ becoming surety for those that died before his coming, that he would indeed and in truth, at the fullness of time (or at the time appointed, Gal. 4. 4.) give a complete and full satisfaction for them according to the tenor, or condition of the Covenant.
First, Here a believer seeth he shall stand, if Christs doings and sufferings stand (which is a sure Foundation) for God dealeth with him through Christ. And so Secondly, He shall not fall, unless the sufferings and merits of Christ be thrown over the bar, being found guilty (which will never be) before the eyes of divine justice. For with him the Covenant was made, and he was the surety of it,