A30141:83
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 to speak in a few particulars for thy better understanding herein. Know first, that the Law of God, or Covenant of Works, doth not contain it self in one particular branch of the Law, but doth extend it self into many, even into all the Ten Commandments, and them Ten into very many more, as might be showed: so that the danger doth […] lie in the breaking of one or Two of these Ten only, but it doth lie even in the transgression of any one of them. As you know, if a King should give forth ten particular commands to be obeyed, by his subjects upon pain of death: now if any man doth transgress against any one of these ten, he doth commit treason, as if he had broke them all, and […] liable to have the sentence of the Law, as certainly passed on him, as if he had broken every particular of them.
But to speak in a few partculars for thy better understanding herein. Know first, that the Law of God, or Covenant of Works, doth not contain it self in one particular branch of the Law, but doth extend it self into many, even into all the Ten Commandments, and them Ten into very many more, as might be shewed: so that the danger doth 〈…〉 lie in the breaking of one or Two of these Ten only, but it doth lie even in the transgression of any one of them. As you know, if a King should give forth ten particular commaands to be obeyed, by his subjects upon pain of death: now if any man doth transgress against any one of these ten, he doth commit treason, as if he had broke them all, and 〈…〉 liable to have the sentence of the Law, as certainly passed on him, as if he had broken every particular of them.
2. Again, you know that the Laws being given forth by the King, which if a man keep and obey a long time; yet if at the last he flips and breaks those Laws, he is presently apprehended, and condemned by that Law. These things are clear as touching the Law of God, as it is a Covenant of Works: if a man do fulfil nine of the Commandments, and yet breaketh but one, that being broken, will as surely destroy him, and shut him out from the joys of Heaven, as if he had actually ⟨p. 19⟩