A30141:733
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 surely if the day of Grace was not past with me, I should not be so long without an answer of Gods love to my Soul; ⟨p. 312⟩that therefore doth make me mistrust my state the more, is, that I wait and wait, and yet am not delivered.
Answ. Hast thou waited on the Lord so long as the Lord hath waited on thee; it may be the Lord hath waited on thee this twenty or thirty, yea forty years, or more, and thou hast not waited on him seven years; cast this into thy Mind therefore when Satan tells thee, that God doth not love thee, because thou hast waited so long without an assurance; (for it is his temptation) for God did wait longer upon thee, and was fain to send to thee by his Ambassadors, time after time: And therefore say thou, I will wait to see what the Lord will say unto me; and the rather, because he will speak Peace, for he is the Lord thereof.
But secondly, Know that it is not thy being under trouble a long time, that will be an Argument sufficient to prove that thou art past hopes; Nay contrariwise; for Jesus Christ did take our Nature upon him, and also did undertake deliverance for those, and bring it in for them who were all their Life Time subject to Bondage, Heb. 2. 14, 15.