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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
LIGHT for them that sit in DARKNESS. › That Christ was made under the Law.
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.
Made under the Law; that is, put himself into the Room of Sinners, into the Condition of Sinners; made himself subject to the same pains and penalties we were obnoxious to. We were under the Law, and it had dominion over us, bound us upon pain of Eternal Damnation to do completely all things written in the Law. This Condition Christ put himself into, that he might redeem: for assuredly we had else perished.
Made under the Law; that is, put himself into the Room of Sinners, into the Condition of Sinners; made himself subject to the same pains and penalties we were obnoxious to. We were under the Law, and it had dominion over us, bound us upon pain of Eternal Damnation to do compleatly all things written in the Law. This Condition Christ put himself into, that he might redeem: for assuredly we had else perished.
The Law had dominion over us, and since we had sinned, of right it pronounced the Curse, and made all men subject to the Wrath of God. Christ therefore did not only come into our Flesh, but also into our Condition, into the Valley and Shadow of Death where we were, and where we are as we are Sinners. He that is under the ⟨p. 57⟩Law, is under the Edge of the Axe. When David was to go visit his Brethren, and to save them from the Hand of Goliath, he was to look how his Brethren fared, and to take their Pledge, 1. Sam. 17. 18. This is true of Jesus Christ, when he came to save us from the Hand of Death and the Law; he looked how his Brethren fared, took to heart their deplorable Condition, and put himself into the same Plight, to wit, under the Law, that he might redeem them that were under the Law.
The Law had dominion over us, and since we had sinned, of right it pronounced the Curse, and made all men subject to the Wrath of God. Christ therefore did not only come into our Flesh, but also into our Condition, into the Valley and Shadow of Death where we were, and where we are as we are Sinners. He that is under the