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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.
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Without this then there could not have been Redemption, nor any the Sons of God by Adoption; no Redemption, because the Sentence of Death had already past upon all; no Sons by Adoption, because that's the Effect of Redemption. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law, That we might receive the Adoption of Sons. Christ then by being made under the Law, hath recovered his from under the Law, and obtained ⟨p. 58⟩for them the Privilege of the Adoption of Sons.
Without this then there could not have been Redemption, nor any the Sons of God by Adoption; no Redemption, because the Sentence of Death had already past upon all; no Sons by Adoption, because that's the Effect of Redemption. God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law, That we might receive the Adoption of Sons. Christ then by being made under the Law, hath recovered his from under the Law, and obtained ⟨p. 58⟩for them the Priviledg of the Adoption of Sons.
For as I told you before, Christ stood a Common Person, presenting in himself the whole Lump of the promised Seed, or the Children of the Promise; wherefore he comes under the Law for them, takes upon him to do what the Law required of them, takes upon him to do it for them.
He began therefore at the first Tittle of the Law, and going in mans Flesh, for man, through the Law, He becomes the End of the Law for righteousness, for every one that believeth. The END of the Law, what is the End of the Law, but perfect and sinless Obedience? that is the End of the Law both with respect to its Nature, and the Cause of its being imposed. God gave the Law, that complete Righteousness should by that be found upon men, but because sin was got into man's Flesh, therefore this Righteousness, by us, could not be completed: Now comes Christ the Lord into the World, clothes himself with the Children's Flesh, addresseth himself to the Work of their Redemption, is made under the Law; and going through every part of the Law without Sin, he becometh the End of the Law for Justifying Righteousness to every one that believeth,