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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.
Quest. But is not this the way to make Christ to loath us? You know when Children fall down in the dirt, they do usually before they go home, make their clothes as clean as they can, for fear their Parents should chide them, and so I think should we?
Quest. But is not this the way to make Christ to loath us? You know when Children fall down in the dirt, they do usually before they go home, make their cloaths as clean as they can, sor fear their Parents should chide them, and so I think should we?
Answ. This comparison is wrongly applied, if you bring it to show us how we must do when we come to Christ. He that can make himself clean, hath no need of Christ; for the whole, the clean, and righteous, have no need of Christ, but those that are foul and sick Physicians you know if they love to be honoured, they will not bid the Patients first make themselves whole, and then come to them: no, but bid them come with their sores all running on them, as the woman with her bloody issue, Mark 5. And as Mary Magdalen with her Belly full of Devils, and the Lepers all scabbed, and that is the right coming to Jesus Christ.
Answ. This comparison is wrongly applied, if you bring it to shew us how we must do when we come to Christ. He that can make himself clean, hath no need of Christ; for the whole, the clean, and righteous, have no need of Christ, but those that are foul and sick Physicians you know if they love to be honoured, they will not bid the Patients first make themselves whole, and then come to them: no, but bid them come with their sores all running on them, as the woman with her bloody issue, Mark 5. And as Mary Magdalen with her Belly full of Devils, and the Leppers all scabbed, and that is the right coming to Jesus Christ.