A30167:469

Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…

Name: Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and…
Author: John Bunyan

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.

John Bunyan 1628–1688London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675

[8], 182, [2] p. · 46k words · Wing B5554 · ESTC R19879

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LIGHT for them that sit in DARKNESS. › I come now to some Objections. › Objection 4: 4. Object. But the Scripture saith, Christ is our Example and that in his very death, 1…

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Now as he suffered by God's Hand, so he suffered for sin; but as he suffered from Men, so he suffered for righteousness sake.

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Observe then, That as he suffered for sin, so no MAN took away his Life; but as he suffered for righteousness, so THEY slew him by wicked hands: What is it then? Christ must needs have suffered, and the Wisdom of God had so ordained. That those things which God before had showed by the Mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled, Acts 3. 18.

Observe then, That as he suffered for sin, so no MAN took away his Life; but as he suffered for righteousness, so THEY slew him by wicked hands: What is it then? Christ must needs have suffered, and the Wisdom of God had so ordained. That those things which God before had shewed by the Mouth of all his Prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled, Acts 3. 18.

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Thus therefore we ought to distinguish of the Causes, and Ends of the Death of Christ.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

John Bunyan 1628–1688

Place

London

Bookseller

Francis Smith

Year

1675

Size

[8], 182, [2] p.

Words

45,607

Catalogue

Wing B5554 · ESTC R19879

Text

EEBO-TCP A30167

Passages

785

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Object. But if indeed Christ hath paid the full price for us by his Death, in suffering the Punishment that we should have done: wherefore is the Scripture so silent, as not to declare, that by his Death he hath made satisfaction?