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Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…
Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and that he undertook to accomplish by himself the eternal redemption of sinners also, that the Lord Jesus addressed himself to this work, with undeniable demonstrations that he performed the same : objections to the contrary answered / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675
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.
2. Upon that Rock was built the Temple. And upon this Rock, said Christ, will I build my Church, and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it, 2 Chron. 3. 1. Mat. 16. 18.
Other things might be urged, but these being virtually of the force of the Promise, and also as a Key to open them, therefore I thought good to place them here with the Promises; because, as they are standing with them, so they are written to beget Faith in the same Lord Jesus Christ.
I come now to the third thing, to wit, That these Promises were ground for a Believing Remembrance that a Saviour should one day come.
There is a Remembering, and a Believing Remembering, or such a Remembering that begetteth, and maintaineth Faith in the Heart. Jacob had a ⟨p. 18⟩Believing Remembrance, when he said, I have waited for thy Salvation, O Lord,