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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. › He was made a Curse for us,
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.
Now so much of all kind of Sorrow as the Imputation of our Sin, could justly bring from the Hand of Divine Justice, so much of it he had.
1. He had Death.
2. He had the Sting of Death, which is Sin.
3. He was forsaken of God, but could not by any means have those Sorrows which they have that are everlastingly swallowed up of them. It was not possible that he should be holden of it, Act. 2. 24.
For where Sin is charged and born, there must of necessity follow the Wrath and Curse of God: Now where the Wrath and Curse of God is, there must of necessity follow the Effects, the Natural Effects.