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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 it was necessary that he should take our Flesh, if he will be our Saviour.
I Come now to the Third Thing, namely, That it was necessary that he should take our Flesh if he will be our Saviour.
And that first, from the Nature of the Work; his Work was to save, to save man, sinking man: man that was going down to the Pit, Job 34. 24. Now he that will save him that is sinking, must take hold on him. And since he was not to save a Man, but Men; therefore it was necessary that he should take hold, not of one Person, but of the Common Nature, clothing himself with part of the same.
He took not hold of Angels, but took on him the Seed of Abraham. For THAT Flesh was the same with the whole Lump of the Children, to whom the Promise was made; and comprehended in it the Body of them that shall be saved, even as in Adam was comprehended the whole World at first, Rom. 5.