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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.
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. Revel. 12. Now the Children could not destroy him, because he had already cast them into sin; defiled their Nature, and laid them under the Wrath of God, Therefore Christ puts himself among the Children, and into the Nature of the Children; that he might, by means of his Dying in their Flesh, destroy the Devil; that is, take away Sin, his Work, that he might destroy the Works of the Devil; for sin is the great Engine of Hell, by which he overthroweth all that perish: Now this did Christ destroy, by taking on him the similitude of Sinful Flesh; of which more anon.
That he might destroy him that had the Power of Death, that is the Devil, and deliver them. This was the thing in chief intended, that he might deliver the Children, that he might deliver them from death, the Fruit of their Sin; and from Sin, the Sting of that Death. That he might deliver them, who through the Fear of Death, were all their Life-time subject to bondage.