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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.
God could not communicate himself to us, nor take us into the Enjoyment of himself, but with respect to that Flesh which his Son took of the Virgin, because sin stood betwixt. Now this Flesh, only, was the Holy Lump; in this Flesh God could dwell, and forasmuch as this Flesh is the same with ours, and was taken up with intent that what was done, in, and by that, should be communicated to all the Children; therefore through that, doth God communicate of himself unto his People. God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself. And▪ I am the Way, saith Christ, no man cometh to the Father but by me, 2 Cor. 5. Joh. 14. 6.
That Passage to the Hebrews is greatly to our purpose: We have boldness, Brethren, to enter into the Holiest, (the place where God is) by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way which he ⟨p. 55⟩hath Consecrated for us through the Veil, that is to say, his Flesh, Heb. 10. 19, 20. Wherefore by the Flesh and Blood of Christ, we enter into the Holiest; through the Veil, saith he, that is to say, his Flesh.
That Passage to the Hebrews is greatly to our purpose: We have boldness, Brethren, to enter into the Holiest, (the place where God is) by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way which he ⟨p. 55⟩hath Consecrated for us through the Vail, that is to say, his Flesh, Heb. 10. 19, 20. Wherefore by the Flesh and Blood of Christ, we enter into the Holiest; through the Vail, saith he, that is to say, his Flesh.