A30141:759
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.
Poor Souls that are under the Distemper of a guilty Conscience, and under the workings of much Corruption, do not go the nearest way to Heaven, if they do not in the first place look upon themselves as cursed Sinners by the Law; and yet at that time they are blessed, for ever blessed Saints, by the Merits of Jesus Christ. O wretched Man that I am, saith Paul, and yet O blessed Man that I am through my Lord Jesus Christ: for ⟨p. 321⟩that is the Scope of the Scripture, Rom. 7. 24, 25.
Object. But alas, I am blind and cannot see, what shall I do now?
Answ. Why truly thou must go to him that can make the Eyes that are blind to see (even to our Lord Jesus) by Prayer, saying as the poor blind Man did, Lord, that I might receive my Sight, and so continue begging with him, till thou do receive Sight, even a sight of Jesus Christ, his Death, Blood, Resurrection, Ascension, Intercession, and that for thee, even for thee.