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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.
Thou deliveredst them into the Land of their Enemies who vexed them, and in the time of their trouble when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from Heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them Saviours, who saved them out of the Hand of their Enemies, Nehem. 9. 27.
Thus was Jesus Christ a Saviour, he was engaged by virtue of respect and command from God, to obtain by conquest and redemption, the Captives or Persons grieved; God sent his Son to be the Saviour of the World, John 4. 14.
Meritoriously, is when the Person engaging, shall at his own proper cost and charge give a sufficient value or price for those he redeemeth.
Thus those under the Law were redeemed by the Money called the Redemption-Money. And Moses gave the Money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his Sons, Numb. 3. 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52