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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.
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, Gen. 49. 18. And so had David when he cried, O that the Salvation of Israel was come out of Zion, Psalm 53. 6. These, with Simeon and Anna, had not a Remembrance only, but a Believing Remembrance, that God would send them a Saviour. They had the Promise not in the Book only, but in their Hearts: This Gospel was mixed in them with Faith; therefore they with their Fellows remembered and believed, or made the Promise the Ground of their Believing that God would one day send them a Saviour.
There is a Remembring, and a Believing Remembring, or such a Remembring 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, Gen. 49. 18. And so had David when he cried, O that the Salvation of Israel was come out of Zion, Psalm 53. 6. These, with Simeon and Anna, had not a Remembrance only, but a Believing Remembrance, that God would send them a Saviour. They had the Promise not in the Book only, but in their Hearts: This Gospel was mixed in them with Faith; therefore they with their Fellows remembred and believed, or made the Promise the Ground of their Believing that God would one day send them a Saviour.
Let me make some use of this Doctrine.