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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 5: The fifth use.
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. By considering what Sin is. 2. By considering what Hell is. 3. By considering what Wrath is. 4. By considering what Eternity is. 5. By considering what the loss of a Soul is. 6. What the loss of God is. 7. What the loss of Heaven is. 8. And what it is to be in utter Darkness with Devils and damned Souls for ever and ever.
And after all to conclude, from all these Miseries the Lord Jesus delivered me.
Further, This makes Christ precious, if I consider in the next place:
1. How he did deliver me, 'twas with his Life, his Blood; it cost him Tears, Groans, Agony, Separation from God; to do it he endured his Fathers Wrath, bare his Fathers Curse, ⟨p. 180⟩and died thousands of deaths at once.