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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
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.
These Words are part of a Sermon, which Paul preached to the People that lived at Antioch in Pisidia; where also inhabited many of the Jews. The Preparation to his Discourse he thus begins; Men of Israel, and ye that fear God give audience, ver. 16. by which having prepared their minds to attend, he proceeds and gives a particular relation of Gods peculiar dealings with his People Israel, from Egypt to the time of David their King; of whom he treateth particularly.
THese Words are part of a Sermon, which Paul preached to the People that lived at Antioch in Pisidia; where also inhabited many of the Jews. The Preparation to his Discourse he thus begins; Men of Israel, and ye that fear God give audience, ver. 16. by which having prepared their minds to attend, he proceeds and gives a particular relation of Gods peculiar dealings with his People Israel, from Egypt to the time of David their King; of whom he treateth particularly.
That he was the Son of Jessey, that he was a King, that God raised him up in mercy, that God gave Testimony of him, that he was a Man after God's own heart, that he should fulfil all his Will, ver. 22.
And this he did of purpose, both to engage them the more to attend, and because they well knew that of the fruit of his Loins God had promised the Messiah should come.
And this he did of purpose, both to ingage them the more to attend, and because they well knew that of the fruit of his Loins God had promised the Messiah should come.