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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.
Now this is done thus. When a man doth think, that because he thinks he is more sincere, more liberal, with more difficulty, or to the weakening of his estate; I say, if a man because of this, doth think that God accepteth his labour, it is done from an Old Covenant Spirit.
Now this is done thus. When a man doth think, that because he thinks he is more sincere, more liberal, with more difficulty, or to the weakning of his estate; I say, if a man because of this, doth think that God accepteth his labour, it is done from an Old Covenant Spirit.
Again, Some men they think that they shall be heard, because they have prayer in their families, because they can pray long, and speak expressions, or express themselves excellently in prayer, that because they have great enlargements in prayer: I say, that ⟨p. 256⟩therefore to think that God doth delight in their doings, and accept their works, this is from a Legal Spirit.
Again, Some men think, that because their Parents have been religious before them, and have been indeed the people of God, they think if they also do as to the outward observing of that which they learned from their fore-runners, that therefore God doth accept them: but this also is from a wrong spirit; and yet how many are there in England at this day, that think the better of themselves, merely upon that account, I, and think the people of God ought to think so too; not understanding that it is ordinary, for an Eli to have an Hophni and a Phinehas, both sons of Belial: Also a good Samuel to have a perverse off-spring; likewise David an Absalom. I say, their being ignorant of, or else negligent in regarding this, they do think that because they do spring from such and such, as the Jews in their generations did, that therefore they have a privilege with God more than others, when there is no such thing,