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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.
In this Office of Harbinger, or Fore-runner; he prepareth for Believers their dwelling-Places in the Heavens; their dwelling-Places, according to their Place, State, Calling, Service, or Work, in his Body the Church. In my Fathers House, saith he, are many Mansions, if it were not so I would have told you, I go to prepare a Place for you, Joh. 14.
This is that is mentioned in the 47th Psalm. He shall choose our Inheritance for us, the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved. But should he have had Power to choose our Inheritance for us, to prepare for us our dwelling-Places; should he have Power to give even Heaven itself to a Company of Poor Men, had he not in the first Place obtained by his Blood the Deliverance of our Soul from Death.
This is that is mentioned in the 47th Psalm. He shall chuse our Inheritance for us, the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved. But should he have had Power to chuse our Inheritance for us, to prepare for us our dwelling-Places; should he have Power to give even Heaven itself to a Company of Poor Men, had he not in the first Place obtained by his Blood the Deliverance of our Soul from Death.
3. He is there a Prophet for us, by which Office of his, he hath received to communicate the whole Will of the Eternal God, so far as is fit ⟨p. 113⟩for us to know in this World, or in that which is to come. Hence he is called the Prophet of the Church. The Lord shall raise you up a Prophet, and this is, of a truth, that Prophet that should come into the World: But this Office he hath also now in Heaven, by virtue of the Blood he shed for us upon Earth. Hence the New-Testament is called, The New-Testament in his Blood, and his Blood is said to be The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, or Testament: Yea such virtue doth his Blood give to the New-Testament or Covenant of Grace, as that severed from that it is nothing worth; for a Testament is of force after men are dead, otherwise it is of no strength at all, while the Testator liveth,