A30167:16
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.
Now those Professors that have had some Knowledge of these things, and yet have lost them, it hath come thus to p•ss with them; because they first lost the Knowledge of themselves, and of their Sins.
Now those Professors that have had some Knowledg of these things, and yet have lost them, it hath come thus to p•ss with them; because they first lost the Knowledg of themselves, and of their Sins.
They know not themselves to be such, nothingones, as the Scripture reporteth them to be, nor their Sins to be so heinous as the Law hath concluded: ⟨image 3⟩Therefore they either turn again with the Dog to his Vomit, or adhere to a few of the Rags of their own Fleshly Righteousness, and so become pure in their own Eyes, yet are not purged by Blood, from their Filthiness.
For the Person and Doings of Jesus Christ are only precious to them that get and retain the true Knowledge of themselves, and the due Reward of their Sins by the Law: These are desolate, being driven out of all, these embrace the Rock instead of a Shelter; the Sensible Sinner receiveth him joyfully.
For the Person and Doings of Jesus Christ are only precious to them that get and retain the true Knowledg of themselves, and the due Reward of their Sins by the Law: These are desolate, being driven out of all, these embrace the Rock instead of a Shelter; the Sensible Sinner receiveth him joyfully.