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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.
2. He gave Glory to his Name, to his Name, JESUS; that Name being exalted above every Name. He hath given him a Name above every Name, that at the Name of Jesus, every Knee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things on Earth, and things under the Earth, and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father, Phil. 2.
This Name is said (in another place) to be a Name above every Name that is Named, not only in this World, but in that also which is to come, Ephes. 1. 21.
But should [JESUS] have been such a Name, since he undertook for Sinners; had this Undertaker failed in his Work, if his Work had not been accepted with God, even the Work of our Redemption by his Blood? No verily, it would have stunk in both the Nostrils of God and Man, it would have been the most abhorred Name: but JESUS is the Name; JESUS, he was called, in order to his Work. His Name shall be called JESUS, ⟨p. 110⟩for he shall save; He was so named of the Angels, before he was conceived in the Womb; and he goeth by that Name now he is in Heaven: By the Name Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, because he once dwelt there. This Name, I say, is the Highest Name, the Everlasting Name; the Name that he is to go by, to be known by, to be worshipped by, and to be glorified by; yea the Name by which also most Glory shall redound to God the Father. Now what is the Signification of this Name, but SAVIOUR? This Name he hath therefore, for his Works Sake; and because God delighted in his Undertaking, and was pleased with the Price he had paid for us; therefore the Divine Majesty hath given him it, hath made it High, and hath commanded all Angels to bow unto it. Yea, it is the Name in which he resteth, and by which he hath magnified all his Attributes.