A30141:694
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.
Object. But it seems to be rather a resisting of the Spirit, and the motions thereof, than this which you say; for first, its proper Title is the Sin against the Holy Ghost. And again, They have done despite unto the Spirit of Grace. So that it rather seems to be, I say, that a resisting of the Spirit, and the movings thereof is that Sin.
1 Answ. For certain the Sin is committed by them that do as before I have said, that is, by a final, knowing, wilful, malicious trampling under foot the Blood of Christ, which was shed on Mount Calvary, when Jesus was there crucified. And though it be called the Sin against the Spirit, yet (as I said before) every Sin against the Spirit is not that: for if it was, then every Sin against the Light and Convictions of the Spirit would be unpardonable: but that is an evident untruth, for these Reasons. First, because there be those who have sinned against the movings of the Spirit, and that knowingly too, and yet did not commit that. As Jonah, who when God had expressly by his Spirit bid him go to Nineveh, he runs thereupon quite another way. Secondly, because the very People that have sinned against the movings of the Spirit, are yet, if they do return, received to Mercy. Witness also Jonah, who though he had sinned against the movings of the Spirit of the Lord, in doing contrary thereunto, Yet when he called (as he saith) to the Lord, (out of the Belly of Hell) the Lord heard him, and gave him deliverance, and set him again about his work. (Read the whole story of that Prophet.)
1 Answ. For certain the Sin is committed by them that do as before I have said, that is, by a final, knowing, wilful, malicious trampling under foot the Blood of Christ, which was shed on Mount Calvary, when Jesus was there crucified. And though it be called the Sin against the Spirit, yet (as I said before) every Sin against the Spirit is not that: for if it was, then every Sin against the Light and Convictions of the Spirit would be unpardonable: but that is an evident untruth, for these Reasons. First, because there be those who have sinned against the movings of the Spirit, and that knowingly too, and yet did not commit that. As Jonah, who when God had expresly by his Spirit bid him go to Nineveh, he runs thereupon quite another way. Secondly, because the very People that have sinned against the movings of the Spirit, are yet, if they do return, received to Mercy. Witness also Jonah, who though he had sinned against the movings of the Spirit of the Lord, in doing contrary thereunto, Yet when he called (as he saith) to the Lord, (out of the Belly of Hell) the Lord heard him, and gave him deliverance, and set him again about his work. (Read the whole story of that Prophet.)