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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.
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.
Hence we are said to be chosen in him, to be gathered, being in him, to be dead by him, to be risen with him and to be set with him, or in him in Heavenly Places already, I phes. 1. 4, 10. Rom. 7. 4. Col. 3. 1, 2, 3. Chap. 2. 12, 13.
This then was the Wisdom of the great God, that the Eternal Son of his Love should take hold of, and so secure the sinking Souls of perishing Sinners by assuming their Flesh.
Secondly, The Manner of his doing the Work of a Saviour, did call for his taking of our Flesh.