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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.
Fifthly, Again, as he works all our works in us and for us, so also by virtue of this Covenant, we have another nature given unto us. Whereby, or by which we are made willing to be glorifying of God both in our bodies, and in our spirits, which are his, Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, 2 Cor. 6. 20. Psal. 110. 3.
Fifthly, Again, as he works all our works in us and for us, so also by vertue of this Covenant, we have another nature given unto us. Whereby, or by which we are made willing to be glorifying of God both in our bodies, and in our spirits, which are his, Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, 2 Cor. 6. 20. Psal. 110. 3.
Sixthly, In the next place, all those that are under this second Covenant, are in a wonderful safe condition: For in case they should slip or fall, after their conversion into some sin or sins, (for who lives and sins not, Prov. 24. 16.) yet through the merits and intercession of Christ Jesus, who is their undertaker in this Covenant, they shall have their sins pardoned, their wounds healed, and they raised up again; which privilege the children of the first Covenant have not, for if they sin, they are never afterwards regarded by that Covenant. They break my Covenant, and I regarded them not, Heb. 8. 9. But when he comes to speak of the Covenant of Grace, speaking first of the public person under the name of David, he ⟨p. 235⟩saith thus, Psal. 89. from the 26. verse to the 37. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my Salvation. Also I will make him my first-born: higher then the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my Covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his Children forsake my Law, and walk not in my judgment: If they break my Statutes, and keep not my Commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David, His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the Sun before me; it shall be established for ever as the Moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. My Covenant shall stand fast with him, mark that, As if God had said, I did not make this Covenant with man, but with my Son, and with him I will perform it; and seeing he hath given me complete satisfaction, though his Children do through infirmity transgress, yet my Covenant is not therefore broken, seeing he with whom it was made, standeth firm, according to the desire of my heart;