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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.
2dly. At, or just upon his Resurrection, the Graves, where many of the Saints, for whom he died, lay asleep, did open, and they followed their Lord in full Triumph over Death. The Graves were opened, and many Bodies of Saints which slept arose, and came out of their Graves after his Resurrection, and went into the Holy City, and appeared unto many, Mat. 27. 52.
These Saints coming out of their Graves after him; what a Testimony is it, that he, for them, had taken away Sin, and destroyed him that had the Power of Death: yea, what a Testimony was it that he had made amends to God the Father, who granted him at his Resurrection, to have presently out of the Grave, Of the Price of his Blood, even the Body of many of the Saints which slept. He was declared to be the Son of God with Power by the Spirit of Holiness, and the Resurrection from the Dead, Rom. 1. 4. It saith not, by his Resurrection, though that be true; But by the Resurrection, meaning the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints which slept, because they rose by virtue of his Blood; and by that he was with power declared to be the Son of God. They I say, were part of his Purchase, some of them for whom Christ died: Now for God to raise them, and that upon, and by virtue of his Resurrection; what is it, but an open Declaration from Heaven, that Christ by his Death hath made amends for us, and obtained Eternal Redemption for us?
These Saints coming out of their Graves after him; what a Testimony is it, that he, for them, had taken away Sin, and destroyed him that had the Power of Death: yea, what a Testimony was it that he had made amends to God the Father, who granted him at his Resurrection, to have presently out of the Grave, Of the Price of his Blood, even the Body of many of the Saints which slept. He was declared to be the Son of God with Power by the Spirit of Holiness, and the Resurrection from the Dead, Rom. 1. 4. It saith not, by his Resurrection, though that be true; But by the Resurrection, meaning the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Saints which slept, because they rose by vertue of his Blood; and by that he was with power declared to be the Son of God. They I say, were part of his Purchase, some of them for whom Christ died: Now for God to raise them, and that upon, and by vertue of his Resurrection; what is it, but an open Declaration from Heaven, that Christ by his Death hath made amends for us, and obtained Eternal Redemption for us?