OF THE Law and Grace UNFOLDED: Difcourfe 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; and likewife, Who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of thefe Two Covenants. WHEREIN Fer the better. Understanding of the Reader, there are feveralQueftions answered, touching the Law and Grace, very easy to be Read, and as eafy to be Understood, by thofe that are Sons of Wifdom, the Children of the Second Covenant. ALSO, Several TITLES fet over the feveral Truths! contained in this B 0 0 K, for thy fooner finding of them; which are those at the latter End. By J. Bunyan, Author of the Pilgrim's Progress. The Fourth Edition Cozrected and Amended. The Law made nothing Perfect, but the bringing in of a better Hope did; by the which, we draw nigh to God, Heb. vii. 19. Therefore we conclude, That a Man is juftified by Faith, witb. cut the Deeds of the Law, Rom. iii. 28. To him therefore that worketh not, but believeth on him that juftifieth the Ungodly, his Faith is counted for Righteousness, Rom iv. 5. LONDON: Printed for J. CLARKE, at the Golden Ball in Duck-Lane, and J. HODGES at the LookingGlafs on London-Bridge, 1736. /01.2.14 THE Epistle to the READER. Reader, F 1er, the freeness and fulness of the Gospel, togeat any time there be held forth by the Preach ther with the readiness of the Lord of Peace to receive thofe that have any Defire thereto; prefently it is the Spirit of the World to cry out, Sure this Man difdains the Law, flights the Law, and counts that of none Effect; and all because there is not, together with the Gospel, mingled the Doctrine of the Law (which is not a right difpenfing of the Word according to Truth and Knowledge) Again, if there be the Terror, Horror, and Severity of the Law, dif covered to a People by the Servants of Jefus Chrift (though they do not speak of it, to the end People fhould truft to it, by relying on it as it is a Covenant of Works, but rather that they should be driven further from that Covenant, even to embrace the Tenders and Privileges of the Second) yet, poor Souls, because they are unacquainted with the Natures of thefe Two Covenants, or either of them; therefore, Say they, here is nothing but preaching the Law, thundring of the Law; when alas, if these two be not held forth (to wit) the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace, together with the Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other Souls will never be able neither to know what they are by Nature, nor what they lie under. Alfo, neither can they underftand what Grace is, nor how to come from under the Law, to meet God, in, and through that other most A 2 glorio |