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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.
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Thus have I (Reader) given thee a brief discourse, touching the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace, also of the nature of the one, together with the nature of the other. I have also in this Discourse, endeavoured to show you the condition of them that are under the Law, how sad it is, both from the nature of the Covenant they are under, and also by the carriage of God unto them by that Covenant. And, ⟨p. 244⟩now because I would bring all into as little a compass as I can, I shall begin with the Use and Application of the whole in as brief a way as I can, desiring the Lord to bless it to thee.
Thus have I (Reader) given thee a brief discourse, touching the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace, also of the nature of the one, together with the nature of the other. I have also in this Discourse, endeavoured to shew you the condition of them that are under the Law, how sad it is, both from the nature of the Covenant they are under, and also by the carriage of God unto them by that Covenant. And, ⟨p. 244⟩now because I would bring all into as little a compass as I can, I shall begin with the Use and Application of the whole in as brief a way as I can, desiring the Lord to bless it to thee.
And first of all, let us here begin to examine a little touching the Covenant you stand before God in, whether it be the Covenant of Works, or the Covenant of Grace; and for the right doing of this, I shall lay down this proposition. Namely, that all men naturally come into the world under the first of these, which is called the Old Covenant, or the Covenant of Works, which is the Law. And were all by nature the children of wrath, even as others; which they could not be, had they not been under the Law; for there are none that are under the other Covenant, that are still the Children of the wrath but the Children of faith, the Children of the promise, the accepted Children, the Children not of the Bond-man, but of the free,