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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 568

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Just thus it is here: thou having committed treason against the King of Heaven, He through compassion, for Christ’s sake, hath sent thee a pardon; but the devil, the Law, and thy conscience do continually seek to disturb thee by bringing thy sins afresh into thy remembrance. But now, wouldst thou honor thy King? Why then, he that believeth “the record that…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 567

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 For if thou look upon any of these asunder—that is to say, the Godhead without the manhood, or the manhood without the Godhead—thou wilt conclude that what was done by the Godhead was not done for man, being done without the manhood; or else, that that which was done with the manhood could not answer Divine justice, in not doing what it did by the virtue and…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 566

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 SECOND USE. As all these, and many more privileges, do come to thee through or by the new covenant, and that thou mightst not doubt of the certainty of these glorious privileges, God hath so ordered it that they do all come to thee by way of purchase, being obtained for thee, ready to thy hand, by that one Man Jesus, who is the Mediator, or the Person that…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 565

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 THE USE OF THE NEW COVENANT Now a few words to the second doctrine, and so I shall draw towards a conclusion. FIRST USE. The doctrine doth contain very much comfort to thy [The use, for the second doctrine]. The soul is a new covenant man or one under the new covenant. There is, First, pardon of sin; and, Second, the manifestation of the same; and, Third,…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 564

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 1. That man doth bring himself under the Covenant of Works, by Gospel ordinances, when he cannot be persuaded that God will have mercy upon him except he does yield obedience to such or such a particular thing commanded in the Word. This is the same spirit in the false brethren (spoken of Acts 15; Galatians, the whole Epistle), whose judgment was that unless…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 563

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 A legal spirit. In the next place, if you would indeed be delivered from the first into the second covenant, I admonish you to observe these following particulars. First, have a care that you do not content yourselves, though you do good works—that is, which in themselves are good. Secondly. In and with a legal spirit, which are done these ways as…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 562

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 But out of Christ, thou shalt find God a just God, a sin-avenging God, a God that will by no means spare the guilty; and be sure that every one that is found out of Jesus Christ will be found guilty in the judgment-day, upon whom the wrath of God shall smoke to their eternal ruin. Now, therefore, consider of it, and take the counsel of the Apostle, in 2…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 561

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Object. But doth not the Scripture say, “Blessed are they that doHis commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life”?(Rev 22:14). Answ. There is first, therefore, to be inquired into, whether to keep His commandments be to strive to keep the Law as it is a Covenant of Works, or whether it be meant of the great commandments of the New Testament…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 560

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Object. But if Christ hath given God a full and complete satisfaction, then though I do go on in sin, I need not fear, seeing God hath already been satisfied. [The second objection]. It will be injustice in God to punish for those sins for which He is already satisfied for by Christ. Answ. Rebel, rebel, there are some in Christ and some out of Him. [1].…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 559

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 7. Another privilege that the saints have by virtue of the new covenant is, that they have part of the possession or hold of Heaven and Glory already, and that two manner of ways—(1.) The Divine nature is conveyed from Heaven into them; and, secondly, the human nature, i.e., the nature of man, is received up, and entertained in, and hath got possession of…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 558

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 3. “They that are of the second are better than they that are of the first; and it also appeareth in this—The promises of the Law, through them we have neither faith, nor hope, nor the Spirit conveyed; but through the promises of the Gospel there are all these—”Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these we might be…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 557

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Thus, in general, but more notably. (4.) They are surer, in that they are founded upon God’s love also, and they come to us without calling for those things at our hands that may be a means of putting of a stop to our certain enjoying of them. The promises under, or for the law, they might easily be stopped by our disobedience; but the promises under the…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 556

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 THIRD. THE PRIVILEGES OF THE NEW COVENANT. In the next place, I shall show you the several privileges and advantages that the man or woman hath that is under this Covenant of Grace, over what they have that are under the Covenant of the Law and Works. As, First. The Covenant of Grace is not grounded upon our obedience but God’s love, even His pardoning…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 555

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Second. Now, the soul being this killed to itself, [The soul that hath the correct work of God upon its heart is not only killed to itself but also made alive to Christ]. its sins, its righteousness, faith, hope, wisdom, promises, resolutions, and the rest of its things which it trusted in by nature; in the next place, it hath also given unto it a most…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 554

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 3. Now the soul had received a faith indeed, and a lively hope indeed, such a one as now it can fetch strength from Christ’s fullness of Christ and from the merits of Christ 4. Yea, now the soul can look on itself with one eye, and look upon Christ with another, and say, Indeed, it is true; I am an empty soul, but Christ is a full Christ; I am a poor…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 553

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Third. The soul is quickened so that it is not satisfied without it do in deed and in truth partake of the peace of God’s elect; now it is upon examining the reality of its joy and peace. Time was true that anything would serve its turn, any false conceits of its state to be good; but now all kind of peace will not serve its turn, all kind of joy will not be…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 552

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 But now, when the souls are thus wrought upon, it must be sure to look for the gates of Hell to be set open against it with all their force and might to destroy it. Now Hell rageth, the devil roareth, and all the world resolved to do the best they can to bring the soul again into bondage and ruin. Also, the soul shall not want enemies, even in its own…