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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.
Secondly, The Manner of his doing the Work of a Saviour, did call for his taking of our Flesh.
He must do the Work by dying: Ought not Christ to have suffered? Christ must needs have suffered, Luk. 24. 26. Acts 17. 3. or else no glory follows. The Prophets testified beforehand the Sufferings of Christ, and the Glory that should follow, 1 Pet. 1. 11. Yea, they did it by the Spirit, even by the Spirit of Christ himself. This Spirit then did bid them tell the World, yea, testify that Christ must suffer, or no man be blest with Glory. For the threatening of death, and the Curse of the Law lay in the Way between Heaven-Gates and the Souls of the Children, for their Sins; wherefore he that will save them, must answer Divine Justice, or God must lye in saving them without inflicting the Punishment threatened. Christ then must needs have suffered, the Manner of the Work, laid a necessity upon him to take our Flesh upon him; he must die, he must die for us, he must die for our Sins. And this was effectually foretold by all the Bloody Sacrifices that were offered under the Law; The Blood of Bulls, the Blood of Lambs, the Blood of Rams, the Blood of Calves, and the Blood of Goats and Birds. These Bloody Sacrifices, what did they ⟨p. 53⟩signify, what were they figures of, but of the bloody Sacrifice of the Body of Jesus Christ; their Blood being a Shadow of his Blood, and their Flesh being a Shadow of his Flesh?
He must do the Work by dying: Ought not Christ to have suffered? Christ must needs have suffered, Luk. 24. 26. Acts 17. 3. or else no glory follows. The Prophets testified beforehand the Sufferings of Christ, and the Glory that should follow,