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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.
1. He delivered him into the Hands of Men, Mar: 9. 31. 2. He was delivered into the Hands of Sinners, Luk. 24. 7. 3. He was delivered unto Death, Rom. 4. 25. 4. Yea, so delivered up, as that they both had him to put him to death, and God left him for that purpose in their Hands: yea, was so far off from delivering him, that he gave way to all ⟨p. 80⟩things that had a tendency to take his Life from the Earth.
Now may men do what they will with him, he was delivered to their Will.
1. Judas may sell him. 2. Peter may deny him. 3. All his Disciples forsake him. 4. The Enemy apprehends him, binds him, they have him away like a Thief to Caiaphas the High-Priest, in whose House he is mocked, spit upon, his Beard is twitched from his Cheeks; now they buffet him and scornfully bow the Knee before him: Yea, his Visage is so marred more than any mans, and his Form more than the Sons of Men, Isa. 52. 13, 14, 15.