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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 3: The Third Demonstration.
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The Third Demonstration.
But to proceed; A Third Demonstration, That Jesus Christ by what he hath done, hath paid full price to God for Sinners, and obtained Eternal Redemption for them, is, because he hath received for them the Holy Spirit of God.
BUt to proceed; A Third Demonstration, That Jesus Christ by what he hath done, hath paid full price to God for Sinners, and obtained Eternal Redemption for them, is, because he hath received for them the Holy Spirit of God.
Thus Jesus hath God raised up, whereof, said Peter, we are all Witnesses. Therefore being by the Right Hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth that which ye now see and hear, Act. 2. 32, 33.
The receiving of the Holy Ghost at the Hand of the Father, who had bruised him before for the Transgressions of his People. The receiving of it, I say, upon his Resurrection, and that to give them for whom (just before) he had spilt his Blood to make an Atonement for their Souls; argueth that the Divine Majesty found rest and content in that Precious […]od, and found it full price for the Sinners for whom he shed it.