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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 9: The Ninth 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.
1. One does it by preferring his Sins before him. 2. Another does it by preferring his Righteousness before him. 3. Another does it by preferring his Delusions before him. 4. Another does it by preferring the World before him.
Now these God threateneth, these God punisheth.
Now these God threatneth, these God punisheth.
First, God threateneth them. Whosoever shall not receive that Prophet, shall be cut off from amongst his People, Acts 3. 23. The Prophet is Jesus Christ; the Doctrine that he preached was that he would lay down his Life for us, that he would give us his Flesh to eat, and his Blood to drink by Faith: and promised, that if we did eat his Flesh, and drink his Blood, we should have Eternal Life. He therefore that seeth not, or that is afraid to venture his Soul for Salvation on the Flesh and Blood of Christ by Faith, he refuseth this Prophet, he heareth not this Prophet; and him God hath purposed to cut off. But would God thus have threatened, if Christ by his Blood ⟨p. 154⟩and the Merits of the same, had not paid full price to God for Sinners, and obtained Eternal Redemption for them.
First, God threatneth them. Whosoever shall not receive that Prophet, shall be cut off from amongst his People, Acts 3. 23. The Prophet is Jesus Christ; the Doctrine that he preached was that he would lay down his Life for us, that he would give us his Flesh to eat, and his Blood to drink by Faith: and promised, that if we did eat his Flesh, and drink his Blood, we should have Eternal Life. He therefore that seeth not, or that is afraid to venture his Soul for Salvation on the Flesh and Blood of Christ by Faith, he refuseth this Prophet, he heareth not this Prophet; and him God hath purposed to cut off. But would God thus have threatned, if Christ by his Blood