A30167:456
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.
4. The Conclusion then is, though the Rebukes of God for Sin by death and punishment after, be the Rebukes of Eternal Vengeance; yet the Eternity of that Punishment, is for want of merit: could the Damned merit their own Deliverance, Justice would let them go.
5. It is one thing therefore to suffer for sin, by the stroke of Eternal Justice, and another thing to abide for ever a Sufferer there: Christ did the First, the Damned do the Second.
6. His Rising therefore from the Dead the third Day doth nothing invalid his Sufferings, but rather showeth the Power of his Merit. And here I would ask a Question, Had Christ Jesus been more the Object of Faith, if weakness and endless infirmity had kept him under the Curse, than by rising again from the Dead, want of merit causing the one, sufficiency thereof causing the other?
6. His Rising therefore from the Dead the third Day doth nothing invalid his Sufferings, but rather sheweth the Power of his Merit. And here I would ask a Question, Had Christ Jesus been more the Object of Faith, if weakness and endless infirmity had kept him under the Curse, than by rising again from the Dead, want of merit causing the one, sufficience thereof causing the other?