A30141:57
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.
The first, second, and third Commandments were broken by Pharaoh and his men; for they had false Gods which the Lord Executed Judgment against (as in Exodus 12. 12.) and blasphemed their true God; (Exod. 7. 17. to the end) for their Gods could neither deliver themselves, nor their people from the hand of God; but in the things wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them, Exod. 18. 11.
Again, Some judge that the Lord punished the sin against the second Commandment, which Jacob was in some measure guilty of, in not purging his house from false gods, with the defiling of his daughter Dinah, Gen. 34. 2.
Again, We find that Abimelech thought the sin against the third Commandment so great, that he required no other security of Abraham against the fear of mischief that might be done to him by Abraham, his son, and his sons son: but only Abraham's Oath; (Gen. 21. 23.) the like we see between Abimelech and Isaac, (Gen. 31. 53.) the like we find in Moses and the Israelites, who durst not leave the bones of Joseph in Egypt; because of the Oath of the Lord, whose Name by so doing, would have been abused, Exod. 13. 19.