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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 535

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Quest. Could He not have suffered without His so suffering? Would not His dying only of a natural death have served the turn? Answ. No, in nowise. [1]. The sins for which He suffered called for the torments of Hell; the conditions upon which He died did call for the torments of Hell; for Christ did not die the death of a saint, but the death of a sinner, of…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 534

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Now of what hath been spoken, this is the sum, that there is a sacrifice under the new covenant, as there were sacrifices under the old; and that this sacrifice did every way answer that, or those; indeed, they did but suffer for sin in show, but He in reality; they are the shadow, but He as the substance. O! When Jesus Christ did come to make Himself a…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 533

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Thus have I spoken something concerning Christ’s being the Messenger of the new covenant; but because I am not willing to cut too short of what shall come after, I shall pass by these things not half touched, and come to the other which I promised even now; which was to show you, that as there were Levitical ceremonies in or belonging to the first covenant,…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 532

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Third. He was sent as a Messenger to declare His Father’s love and how dearly He loved sinners. What a heart He had to do them good, where He saith, “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me”; and let me tell you, MY heart too, saith Christ—”Him that cometh to Me, I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). As My Father is willing to give you unto Me, even…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 531

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Fourth. If the surety stands bound, the debtor is at liberty, and if the law does issue out any process to take any, it will be the surety. [Though the debtor and the surety are liable to pay the debt by the law of man, Christ our Surety only by the Covenant of Grace]. And, O! how wonderfully accurate was this accomplished in that, when Christ our Surety…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 530

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Christ is the Surety of the new covenant. FIRST. His first office, after the covenant was made and concluded upon, was that Jesus should become bound as a Surety, [His Suretyship]. and stand engaged upon oath to see that all the conditions of the covenant that were concluded on between Him and His Father should, according to the agreement, be accomplished…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 526

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Now we are to proceed, and the things that we are to treat upon in the second place are these—First. [Besides the reasons already given.] Why is it a free and unchangeable grace? SECOND. Who they are that are actually brought into His free and unchangeable Covenant of Grace, and how they are brought in? THIRD. What are the privileges of those that are…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 529

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 The conditions of the new covenant. The conditions also were concluded on and agreed to be fulfilled by Him: as it is clear, if you understand His saying in the 12th of John, at the 27th verse, where He foretells His death, and saith, “Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I” into the world…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 528

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Objection: But you will say, perhaps, the Scriptures say plainly that the new covenant was and is made with believers, saying, “The days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I led them out of the land of Egypt,”…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 527

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 Second. This covenant or bargain was made in deed and truth before man was in being. O! God thought of the salvation of man before there was any transgression of man; for then, I say, and not since then, was the Covenant of Grace made with the Undertaker thereof; for all the other sayings are to show unto us that glorious plot and contrivance that was…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 525

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 THE DOCTRINE PROVED. In the doctrine, two things must be considered and proved: First, believers are under grace. SECONDLY, Not under the law as a Covenant of Works; you must understand me. For these two, we need to go no further than the very words themselves; the first part of the words proves the first part of the doctrine, “Ye are not under the law”;…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 524

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. And thus, you see, I have briefly spoken to you about something touching the law. First, what it is, and when given; second, how sad those men’s conditions are that are under it; third, who they are that be under it; fourth, how far they may go, and what they may do and receive, and yet be under it;…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 523

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. Now, if Christ doth give it, and that freely, then He doth not sell if for anything that is in the creature; but Christ doth give Himself, as also doth His Father, and that freely, not because there is anything in us, or done by us, that moves Him thereunto. If it were by doing, saith Paul, “Grace…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 522

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. Object. Then, you grant conditional promises in the New Testament, as in the moral law or Ten Commandments. Answ. Though this may be true, the conditional promises in the New Testament do not call to the same people in the same state of unregeneracy to fulfill them upon the same conditions. The…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 521

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. Again, giving of alms is a Gospel command. Yet, if I provide alms from a legal principle, the command to me is not Gospel but legal. It binds me over, as aforesaid, to do the whole law—”For he is not a Jew,” nor a Christian, “which is one outwardly”—that is, one only by an outward subjection to the…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 520

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. Quest. But, you will say, it is like, How should this be made manifest and appear? Answ. I shall speak briefly in answer hereunto as follows—First, then, that man that doth take up any of the ordinances of God—namely, as prayer, baptism, breaking of bread, reading, hearing, alms-deeds, or the like;…

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Works of John Bunyan: THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAW AND GRACE UNFOLDED. 519

by Thomas Sadler, oil on canvas, 1684 WHAT MEN MAY ATTAIN THAT ARE UNDER THIS COVENANT OF WORKS. Object. But, you will say, is not this a fair declaring of the work of grace, or doth it not discover that, without all gainsaying, we are under the Covenant of Grace, when we are able, not only to speak of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ, but also to tell, and that by experience, that we have…