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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 8: The Eight 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.
4. Hence therefore it is, that his Coming is called, our blessed Hope. Looking for the Blessed ⟨p. 150⟩Hope, and glorious Appearing of the Great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ, Tit. 2. 13. A Blessed Hope indeed, if he hath bought our Persons with his Blood, and an Eternal Inheritance for us in the Heavens: A blessed Hope indeed, if also at his Coming we be certainly carried thither. No marvel then if Saints be bid to wait for it, and if Saints themselves long for it. But what a disappointment would these waiting Believers have, should all their expectations be rewarded with a Fable? and the result of their Blessed Hope can amount to no more, if our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, either denieth to come, or coming, bringeth not with him the HOPE, the blessed HOPE that is laid up for us in Heaven: Whereof we have certainly been informed by the Word of the Truth of the Gospel, Col. 1. 5, 6.
5. For Christ was once offered to bear the Sin of many, and unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second Time, without sin unto Salvation, Heb. 9. 28. Here we have it promised that he shall come, that he shall appear the second time, but not with sin, as he did before, to wit, with, and in the Sin of his People when he bare them in his own Body; but now without sin, for he before did put them away by the Sacrifice of himself. Now then let the Saints look for him, not to die for the purchasing of their persons by Blood, but to bring to THEM, and to bring ⟨p. 151⟩them also to that Salvation, that before, when he died, he obtained of God for them by his Death.