A30167:578
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.
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.
First, Of the Necessity of its being given.
1. Otherwise Jesus could never have been proved to be the Saviour; for the Promise was, that Messiah should have the Spirit given him; given him to communicate. As for me, this is my Covenant with them, (saith the Lord,) my Spirit which is upon thee, and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth (meaning the Redeemer, ver, 20.) shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds. Seed, from henceforth and for ever, Isa. 59. 21.
1. Otherwise Jesus could never have been proved to be the Saviour; for the Promise was, that Messias should have the Spirit given him; given him to communicate. As for me, this is my Covenant with them, (saith the Lord,) my Spirit which is upon thee, and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth (meaning the Redeemer, ver, 20.) shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seeds. Seed, from henceforth and for ever, Isa. 59. 21.
Here is the Promise of the Spirit to be given to Christ, and by him to his Seed for ever. And this was signified long before in the Anointing of Aaron and his Sons. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his Sons and consecrate them, Exod. 30. 30.