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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. › The Use of the Doctrine. › Application 1: The first Use.
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The first Use.
BY this Doctrine, we come to understand many things which otherwise abide obscure and utterly unknown, because this Doctrine is accompanied with the Holy Ghost, that Revealer of secrets, and Searcher of the deep things of God, 1 Pet. 1. 2. Ephes. 1. 17. 1 Cor. 2. The Holy Ghost comes down with this Doctrine, as that in which it alone delighteth: therefore is it called The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ. He giveth also the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6. Little of God is known ⟨p. 162⟩in the World where the Gospel is rejected: the Religious Jew, and the Wise Gentile may see more of God in a Crucified Christ, than in Heaven and Earth besides: For in him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and knowledge: not only in his Person, as God, but also in his Undertakings as Mediator. Hence Paul telleth us, That he determined not to know any thing among the Corinthians but Jesus Christ and him Crucified, Col. 2. 2, 3. 1 Cor. 2. 2, 3. I say more of God is revealed in this Doctrine to us, than we can see of him in Heaven and Earth without it.
BY this Doctrine, we come to understand many things which otherwise abide obscure and utterly unknown, because this Doctrine is accompanied with the Holy Ghost, that Revealer of secrets, and Searcher of the deep things of God, 1 Pet. 1. 2