A30167:407
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.
This Jesus Christ could not do, considered as dying for our Sin, but the nearer death, the more heavy, & oppressed with the thoughts of the Revenging Hand of God. Wherefore he falls into an Agony, and Sweats; not after the common rate, as we do when death is severing Body and Soul. His ⟨p. 77⟩Sweat was as it were great drops (Clodders) of Blood, falling down to the Ground, Luk. 22. 44.
This Jesus Christ couldnot do, considered as dying for our Sin, but the nearer death, the more heavy, & oppressed with the thoughts of the Revenging Hand of God. Wherefore he falls into an Agony, and Sweats; not after the common rate, as we do when death is severing Body and Soul. His ⟨p. 77⟩Sweat was as it were great drops (Clodders) of Blood, falling down to the Ground, Luk. 22. 44.
What, I say, should be the Reason, but that death assaulted him with his Sting. If Jesus Christ had been to die for his Virtues only, doubtless he would have born it lightly, and so he did as he died, bearing witness to the Truth, He endured the Cross, and despised the Shame, Heb. 12. 1, 2, How have the Martyrs despised death, and as it were, not been careful of that, having peace with God by Jesus Christ, scorning the most Cruel Torments that Hell and Men could devise and invent; but Jesus Christ could not do so, as he was a Sacrifice for sin, he died for sin, he was made a Curse for us. O my Brethren, Christ died many deaths at once, he made his Grave with the Wicked, and with the Rich in his Deaths. Look how many thousands shall be saved, so many deaths did Jesus die; yet it was but once he died. He died thy death, and my death, and so many deaths as all our Sins deserved, who shall be saved from the Wrath to come.