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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.
Ans. But all that die without a Mediator do: Angels died the Cursed Death, because Christ took not hold of them; and they for whom Christ never prayeth, they die the Cursed Death, for they perish everlastingly in the unutterable Torments of Hell. Christ too died, that Death which is the Proper Wages of Sin, for he had none to stand for him. I looked, saith he, and there was none to help, and I wondered that there was ⟨p. 75⟩none to uphold: therefore mine own Arm brought Salvation unto me. And he saw that there was no man: and he wondered that there was no Intercessor, therefore his Arm brought Salvation unto him, and his Righteousness sustained him, Isa. 63. 5. Isa. 59. 16.
Ans. But all that die without a Mediator do: Angels died the Cursed Death, because Christ took not hold of them; and they for whom Christ never prayeth, they die the Cursed Death, for they perish everlastingly in the unutterable Torments of Hell. Christ too died, that Death which is the Proper Wages of Sin, for he had none to stand for him. I looked, saith he, and there was none to help, and I wondred that there was ⟨p. 75⟩none to uphold: therefore mine own Arm brought Salvation unto me. And he saw that there was no man: and he wondered that there was no Intercessor, therefore his Arm brought Salvation unto him, and his Righteousness sustained him, Isa. 63. 5. Isa. 59. 16.
Christ then died, or endured the Wages of Sin, and that without an Intercessor, without one between God and he: He grappled immediately with the Eternal Justice of God, who inflicted on him Death, the Wages of Sin: there was no man to hold off the Hand of God; Justice had his full blow at him, and made him a Curse for Sin. He died for sin without a Mediator, he died the Cursed Death.