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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.
And this the Work he undertook, required.
1. It required that he should take our Flesh.
2. It required that he should take our Flesh without sin, which could not be, had he taken it by reason of a Carnal Generation; for so, all Children are conceived in, and polluted with sin, Psal. 51. And the least pollution, either of flesh or spirit, had utterly disabled him for the Work, which to do, he came down from Heaven. Therefore, Such an High-Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from Sinners, and made higher than the Heavens, Heb. 7. 26.
This Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God was thus completed: I say, That he might be in all points like as we are, yet without sin; for sin in the Flesh disableth, and maketh incapable to do the Commandment. Therefore was he thus made, thus made of a Woman: And this the Angel assigneth as the Reason of this his Marvellous Incarnation: The Holy Ghost, saith he, shall come upon thee, and the Power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that Holy thing that shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God,