A30141:76
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.
But if any object and say, though the sins against the one, be the sins against the other, and so in that they do agree; yet it doth not appear, that the same is therefore the same Covenant of Works with the other.
Answ. That which was given to Adam in Paradise, you will grant was the Covenant of Works; for it runs thus. Do thus and live, do it not, and die; nay thou shalt surely die. Now there is but one Covenant of Works: If therefore I prove, that that which was delivered on Mount Sinai, is the Covenant of Works, then all will be put out of doubt. Now that this is so, it is evident.
First, Consider the two Covenants, are thus called in Scripture, the one the administration of death, and the other the administration of life; the one the Covenant of Works, the other of Grace, but that delivered on Sinai, is called the ministration of death; that therefore is the Covenant of Works, 2 Cor. 3. For if (saith he) the ministration of death Written and Engraven in stones, was glorious, &c.
First, Consider the two Covenants, are thus called in Scripture, the one the administration of death, and the other the administration of life; the one the Covenant of Works, the other of Grace, but that delivered on Sinai, is called the ministration of death; that therefore is the Covenant of Works, 2 Cor. 3. For if (saith he) the ministration of death Written and Ingraven in stones, was glorious, &c.