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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.
For the First, That he took our Flesh, for this Reason, That he might be a Saviour: For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in the Flesh, Rom. 8. 3, 4.
The Sum of the Words is, forasmuch as the Law could do us no good, by reason of the inability that is in our flesh to do it (for the Law can do us no good until it be fulfilled) and because God had a desire that good should come to us, therefore did he send his Son in our likeness, clothed with flesh, to destroy by his doing the Law, the tendency of the Sin that dwells in our flesh. He therefore took our flesh, that our Sin, with its ⟨p. 45⟩effects, might by him be condemned and overcome.
The Reason therefore why he took flesh, is, Because he would be our Saviour.
Forasmuch then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and blood, he also likewise took part of the same, that through death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death, that is the Devil, and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage,