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Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of…
Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second coming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to several questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustering storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the virtue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunyan ...Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second comming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to severall questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustring storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the vertue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunnyan ...
London: printed for J. Wright the younger, 1656
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.
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thou hast in this small Treatise, set before thee, the several pieces of that great and glorious mystery, Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh: and if thou art enlightened by the spirit of Christ, here thou mayest see by that spirit, how Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Son of Mary, is both true God and true Man, both Natures making but one Christ one Jesus, as Phil. 2. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, verses, where speaking first of his being God, and then of his taking upon ⟨image 3⟩him the nature of man; afterward in the 8 and 9 verses he saith, he (meaning this Jesus) humbled himself, &c. and God (meaning the Father) hath highly exalted him, &c. speaking of both natures God and Man as together making but one Christ; who is the Saviour, and is to be believed and trusted in for Salvation, not only as God, but as man also; and those who do not thus make him the object of their faith, will surely fall short of pardon of sin, and of salvation, Act. 13. 38, 39. through this man (speaking of Christ as crucified at Jerusalem) is preached unto you forgiveness of sins: and in the ⟨image 3⟩1 Tim. 2. 5. saith he, there is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; and this discovers the damnable errors of those commonly called […], who on the […] deny him that […] of the Virgin […] true God as […] as true man: and this is also quite contrary to those commonly called Familists, Ranters, Quakers or others, who on the other hand either deny Christ to be a real man without them, blasphemously fancying him to be only God manifest in their flesh; or else make his humane nature with the fullness of the Godhead in it, to be but a ⟨image 4⟩