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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.
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.
He took flesh therefore, because the Children had it; he took it that he might die for the Children, he took it that he might deliver the Children from the Works of the Devil; that he might deliver them. No Deliverance had come to the Children if the Son of God had not taken their ⟨p. 47⟩Flesh and Blood. Therefore he took our Flesh that he might be our Saviour.
Again, In a Saviour there must be not only Merit, but Compassion and Sympathy; because the Children are yet to live by Faith, are not yet come to the Inheritance. It behoved him therefore in all things to be made like unto his Brethren, that he might be a Merciful and Faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God, to make Reconciliation for the Sins of the People, Heb. 2. 17, 18.