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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.
1. Because the Children, the Heirs of Heaven, are Partakers of Flesh and Blood. Forasmuch then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and Blood, he also himself took part of the same. Had the Children, the Heirs, been without flesh, he himself had not taken it upon him: had the Children been Angels, he had taken upon him the Nature of Angels; but because the Children were Partakers of Flesh, therefore, leaving Angels, or refusing to take hold of Angels, he took Flesh and Blood, the Nature of the Children; that he might put himself into a capacity to save and deliver the Children. Therefore it follows, That through death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death, that is the Devil.
1. Because the Children, the Heirs of Heaven, are Partakers of Flesh and Blood. For asmuch then as the Children are Partakers of Flesh and Blood, he also himself took part of the same. Had the Children, the Heirs, been without flesh, he himself had not taken it upon him: had the Children been Angels, he had taken upon him the Nature of Angels; but because the Children were Partakers of Flesh, therefore, leaving Angels, or refusing to take hold of Angels, he took Flesh and Blood, the Nature of the Children; that he might put himself into a capacity to save and deliver the Children. Therefore it follows, That through death he might destroy him that had the Power of Death, that is the Devil.
This therefore was another Reason, that he might destroy the Devil.
The Devil had bent himself against the Children: ⟨p. 46⟩he is their Adversary, and goeth forth to make war with them. The Devil your Adversary: And he went to make war with the Remnant of her Seed, 1 Pet. 5. 8