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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.
Objection First. Christ never was a Sinner, God never supposed him to be a Sinner, neither did our Sins become really his, God never reputed him so to have been; therefore hate or punish him as a Sinner he could not; for no false judgment can belong to the Lord.
Objection First. CHrist never was a Sinner, God never supposed him to be a Sinner, neither did our Sins become really his, God never reputed him so to have been; therefore hate or punish him as a Sinner he could not; for no false judgment can belong to the Lord.
1. Ans. That Christ was not a Sinner Personally, by acts, or doings of his own, is granted, and in this sense 'tis true, that God did never suppose him to be a Sinner, nor punished him as such a Sinner, nor did he really (if by really you understand naturally) become our Sin, nor did God ever repute him so.
2. But that Christ stood before God in our Sins, and that God did not only suppose him so to stand, but set him in them, put them upon him, and count them as his own, is so true, that he cannot at present be a Christian that denies it. The Lord hath laid upon him the Iniquities of us all, Isa. 53. 1 Pet. 2. 22.