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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.
Secondly. He that believeth not shall be damned, Mar. 16. 16. damned in Hell-Fire. He that believeth not, but what should he believe? Why!
1. That Jesus is the Saviour. If, saith he, ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your Sins.
2. He that believeth not that he hath undertaken and completely perfected Righteousness for us, shall die in his Sins, shall be damned and perish in Hell-fire: For such have no cloak for their Sin, but must stand naked to the show of their Shame before the Judgment of God, that fearful Judgment. Therefore, after he had said, there remains for such, no more sacrifice for sin▪ he adds, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment; there is for them left nothing but the Judgment of God, and his fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversaries. He that despised Moses's Law died without mercy under two or three Witnesses; of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an Unholy thing, and done despite to the Spirit of Grace? Heb. 10. 25, 26.
2. He that believeth not that he hath undertaken and compleatly perfected Righteousness for us, shall die in his Sins, shall be damned and perish in Hell-fire: For such have no cloak for their Sin, but must stand naked to the shew of their Shame before the Judgment of God, that fearful Judgment. Therefore, after he had said, there remains for such, no more sacrifice for sin▪ he adds, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment; there is for them left nothing but the Judgment of God, and his fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversaries. He that despised Moses's Law died without mercy under two or three Witnesses; of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an Unholy thing, and done despite to the Spirit of Grace?