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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.
For consisting of two Natures, and the Personality lying in the God-Head, which gave value and worth to all things done for us by the Man-hood, the Obedience takes denomination from thence, to be the Obedience of God. The Sons Righteousness, the Sons Blood; the Righteousness of God, the Blood of God, Heb. 5. 8, 9. Phil. 3. 7, 8. Acts 20. 28. 1 John 3. 16.
For consisting of two Natures, and the Personality lieing in the God-Head, which gave value and worth to all things done for us by the Man-hood, the Obedience takes denomination from thence, to be the Obedience of God. The Sons Righteousness, the Sons Blood; the Righteousness of God, the Blood of God, Heb. 5. 8, 9. Phil. 3. 7, 8. Acts 20. 28. 1 John 3. 16.
Thus Jesus Christ came into the World under the Law to redeem; not simply as God, but God-Man, both natures making one Christ. The God-head therefore did influence and give value to the human Flesh of Christ in all its Obedience to the Law; else there would have been wanting that Perfection of Righteousness which only could answer the Demands and Expectation ⟨p. 60⟩of the Justice of God, to wit, Perfect Righteousness by Flesh.