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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 2: The Second Demonstration.
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2. I come now to his being Received: He was received up into Heaven. The High-Priest under the Law, when he ascended into the Holiest, he was, there to offer the Blood; which Holiest was the Type of Heaven, Exod. 19. 10, 11. Heb. 9. 24. But because the Sacrifices under the Law could not make them that did the Service perfect as pertaining to the Conscience; therefore they were to stand, not sit, to come out ⟨p. 107⟩again, not tarry there. For it is not possible that the Blood of Bulls and Goats, should take away sin; wherefore, when he cometh into the World, he saith, Sacrifice and Offerings thou wouldest not, but a Body hast thou prepared me. In Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said he, lo, I come (in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God, Heb. 10. 4, 5, 6.
Christ therefore in his entering into Heaven, did it, as High-Priest of the Church of God: Therefore neither did he go in without Blood. Wherefore, when he came to be an High-Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this Building, neither by the Blood of Bulls and Goats, but by his own Blood, he entered in once into the Holy Place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us, Heb. 9. 12, 13, 14.
He entered in having obtained, or because he obtained Eternal Redemption for us: but to pass that,