OF THE Law and Grace UNFOLDED: OR, A Difcourfe touching the Law and Grace. WHEREIN, For the better Understanding of the Reader, ALSO, Several TITLES fet over the feveral Truths which By F. Bunyan, Author of the Pilgrims Progrefs. The Third Edition, Corrected and Amended. The Lawo made nothing Perfect, but the bringing in of a better Hope did; Therefore we conclude, That a Man is justified by Faith, without the To him therefore that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the LONDON, Printed for N. Beddingten, at the Epiftle to the READER. Reader, I F at any time there be held forth by the Prencher, the freeness and fulness of the Gospel, toge ther with the readiness of the Lord of Peace to receive thofe that have any defire thereto; prefently it is the fpirit 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, to gether 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 feverity of the Law, difcovered 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, fay they, here is nothing but preaching of 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 meft. glotions 2. glorious Covenant; thro' which, and only thro' which, God can communicate of himself, Grace, Glory, yea, even all the good things of another World. I having confidered thefe things, together with others, have made bold to prefent yet once more to thy view (my Friend) fomething of the Mind of God, to the end, if it fhall be but bleffed to thee, thou mayeft be benefited thereby. For verily these things are not fuch as are ordinary, and of fmall concernment, but do abfolutely concern thee to know, and that experimentally too, if ever thou do partake of the Glory of God thro' Jefus Chrift, and fo efcape the terror and unfupportable vengeance, that will otherwife come upon thee thro' his Justice, because of thy living and dying in thy Tranfgreffions against the Law of God. And therefore while thou liveft here below, it is thy duty (if thou wish thy felf happy for the time to come) to give up thy felf to the studying of these two Covenants, treated of in the enfuing Difcourfe; and fo to Study them, until thou, thro' Grace, do not only get the notion of the one and the other in thy Head; but until thou do feel the very power, life, and glory of the one and of the other. For take this for granted, he that is dark as touching the scope, intent, andnature of the Law, is alfo dark as to the Scope, nature, and glory of the Gospel And also he that hath but a notion of the one, will hardly have any more than a notion of the other. : And the reafon is this, because fo long as People are ignorant of the nature of the Law, and of their being under it, that is, under the curfe and condemning power of it, by reafon of their fin against it; fo long they will be careles, and negligent as to the enquiring after the true knowledge of the Gospel. Before the Commandment came (that is in the fpirituality of it) Paul was alive (that is) thought himself safe, which is |