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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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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.
But the Second Person in the God-head, the Son, the Word, coming under the Law for men in their Flesh, and subjecting himself by that Flesh to every tittle, and demand of the Law; all, and every whit of what was acted, and done by Jesus Christ God-man for us, it was, and is the Righteousness of God: and since it was not done for himself, but for us (as he saith in the Text, to redeem.) The Righteousness by which we are set free from the Law, is none other but the Righteousness that alone resideth in the Person of the Son of God.
And that it is absolutely necessary thus it should be, is evident, both with respect to God, and also with respect to Man.