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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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Secondly, The JUSTICE of God, is here more seen, than in punishing all the Damned. He spared not his own Son, is a Sentence which more revealeth the Nature of the Justice of God, than if it had said he spared not all the World. True, he cast Angels from Heaven, and drowned the Old World; he turned Sodom and Gomorrah into Ashes, with many more of like nature, but what were all these to the Cursing of his Son? yea, what were ten thousand such manifestations of his Ireful Indignation against Sin, to that of striking, afflicting, chastising, and making the darling of his Bosom the Object of his Wrath and Judgment. Here it is seen he respecteth not persons, but, judgeth sin, and condemneth him on whom it is found; yea although on Jesus Christ his well-Beloved, Rom. 8. 32. Gal. 3. 13.
Thirdly, The Mystery of God's WILL, is here more seen, than in hanging the Earth upon nothing; while he condemneth Christ though Righteous, and justifieth us though Sinners: while he maketh him to be sin for us, and us the Righteousness of God in him, 1 Pet. 3. 18. 2 Cor. 5. 20.
Fourthly, The POWER of God, is here more seen, than in making of Heaven and Earth; for, for one to bear, and get the Victory over Sin, when charged by the Justice of an Infinite Majesty, in so doing, he showeth the Height of the Highest Power: For where sin by the Law is charged, and that by God immediately, there an Infinite Majesty opposeth, and that with the whole of his Justice, Holiness, and Power: So then, he that is thus charged, and engaged for the Sin of the World, must not only be equal with God, but show it, by over-coming that Curse and Judgment that by Infinite Justice is charged upon him for Sin.