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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.
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.
But again, the Benefit which we receive at the Coming of the Holy Ghost, doth more demonstrate this Truth; hath Christ purchased Sinners, and are they the Price of his Blood? Yes. But how doth that appear? Why, because by the Holy Ghost which he hath received to give us, we are fitted for the Inheritance which by his Blood is prepared for us.
1. By the Spirit of God we are quickened, and raised from a state of Sin, but that we could not be, were it not that an Atonement is made for us; first, by the Blood of Christ our Saviour. This is true; for they that are quickened by the Holy Ghost, are quickened by it through the Word of the Gospel which offereth Justification to Sinners through Faith in his Blood: yea, we are said to be quickened together with him, dead and risen with him: yet so as by the Spirit of God.
1. By the Spirit of God we are quickned, and raised from a state of Sin, but that we could not be, were it not that an Atonement is made for us; first, by the Blood of Christ our Saviour. This is true; for they that are quickned by the Holy Ghost, are quickned by it through the Word of the Gospel which offereth Justification to Sinners through Faith in his Blood: yea, we are said to be quickned together with him, dead and risen with him: yet so as by the Spirit of God.
2. We are not only quickened by the Holy Ghost, but possessed therewith; it is given to dwell in our Hearts. Because ye are Sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts, Gal. 4. 4, 5, 6. which Spirit is also our earnest for Heaven, until the Redemption of the purchased Possession; that is, until our Body which is the purchased Possession, be redeemed also out of the Grave, by the Power of the same mighty Spirit of God,