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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
LIGHT for them that sit in DARKNESS. › Demonstration 1: The first Demonstration.
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The first Demonstration.
And First, I begin with his Resurrection: THAT God that delivered him up unto death, and that made him a Curse for Sin; THAT God raised him up from the dead. But God raised him from the Dead, Act. 3. 15. Chap. 13. 30. Now considering, that at his Death he was charged with our Sins, and accursed to death for our Sins: That Justice that delivered him up for them, must have amends made to him, before he acquit him from them; for there can be no change in Justice. Had he found him in […] Sins in the Grave, as he found him in them ⟨p. 99⟩upon the Tree, (for he had them in his Body on the Tree, 1 Pet. 2. 24.) he had left him there as he left him upon the Tree: yea, he had as surely rotted in the Grave, as ever he died on the Tree. But when he visited Christ in the Grave, he found him a Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, and Spotless Christ, and therefore he raised him up from the Dead. He raised him up from the dead, having loosed the Pains of Death; because it was not possible that he should be holden of it, Act. 2. 24.
ANd First, I begin with his Resurrection: THAT God that delivered him up unto death, and that made him a Curse for Sin; THAT God raised him up from the dead. But God raised him from the Dead, Act. 3. 15. Chap. 13. 30. Now considering, that at his Death he was charged with our Sins, and accursed to death for our Sins: That Justice that delivered him up for them, must have amends made to him, before he acquit him from them; for there can be no change in Justice. Had he found him in Sins in the Grave, as he found him in them