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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.
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.
1. With respect to God. The Righteousness is demanded by God: therefore he that comes to redeem, must present before God a Righteousness absolutely perfect; this can be done by none but God.