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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.
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.
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,
Consider ye now also those Glorious Circumstances that accompany his Approach to the Gates of the Everlasting Habitation.
1. The Everlasting Gates are set, yea, bid stand open. Be ye open ye Everlasting Doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. This King of Glory, is Jesus Christ, and the Words are a Prophecy of his Glorious Ascending into the Heavens; ⟨p. 108⟩