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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.
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.
Christ then died, or endured the Wages of Sin, and that without an Intercessor, without one between God and he: He grappled immediatly 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.
Secondly, A Second thing that Demonstrateth that Christ died the Cursed Death for Sin: It is the Frame of Spirit that he was in at the time that he was to be taken.
Never was poor mortal so beset with the apprehensions of approaching death as was this Lord Jesus Christ; Amazement beyond measure, Sorrow that exceeded seized upon his Soul. My Soul, saith he, is exceeding sorrowful even unto Death. And he began, saith Mark, to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, Mat. 26. 38. Mar. 14. 33.
Never was poor mortal so beset with the apprehensions of approaching death as was this Lord Jesus Christ; Amazement beyond measu•e, Sorrow that exceeded seized upon his Soul. My Soul, saith he, is exceeding sorrowful even unto Death. And he began, saith Mark, to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy,