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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
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.
Answ. First, I do know full well that there are several Persons that have been pardoned, yet have sinned against the Son of Man: and that have for a time rejected him, as Paul, 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14. Also the Jews, Acts 2. 36, 37. But there was an ignorant rejecting of him without the Enlightening, and Taste, and Feeling of the Power of the things of God, made mention of in the sixth of the Hebrews, the 3, 4, 5, 6, Verses.
Answ. First, I do know full well that there are several Persons that have been pardoned, yet have sinned against the Son of Man: and that have for a time rejected him, as Paul, 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14. Also the Jews, Acts 2. 36, 37. But there was an ignorant rejecting of him without the Enlightning, and Taste, and Feeling of the Power of the things of God, made mention of in the sixth of the Hebrews, the 3, 4, 5, 6, Verses.
Secondly, There is, and hath been a higher manner of sinning against the Son of Man, which also hath been, and is still pardonable; as in the case of Peter, who in a violent temptation, in a mighty hurry, upon a sudden denied him, and that after the Revelation of the Spirit of God from Heaven to him, that he (Jesus) was the Son of God, Matth. 16. 16, 17, 18. This also is pardonable, if there be a coming up again to repentance: (O rich Grace! O wonderful Grace! that God should be so full of Love to his poor Creatures, that though they do sin against the Son of God, either through ignorance, or some sudden violent charge breaking loose from Hell upon them) but ⟨p. 304⟩yet take it for certain, that if a Man do slight and reject the Son of God, and the Spirit, in that manner as I have before hinted, that is, for a Man after some great measure of the enlightening by the Spirit of God, and some Profession of Jesus Christ to be the Saviour, and his […] that was shed on the Mount without the Gates of Jerusalem to be the Atonement; I say, he that shall after this, knowingly, wilfully, and out of malice and despite, reject, speak against, and trample that Doctrine under foot, resolving for ever so to do: And if he there continue, I will pawn my Soul upon it, he hath sinned the unpardonable Sin, and shall never be forgiven neither in this World nor in the World to come; or else those Scriptures that testify the Truth of this must be scrabbled out, and must be looked upon for mere Fables; which are these following. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the World, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, (which is the Son of Man,