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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
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Fourthly, There was never any mere man able, by his own power, to overcome the Devil in all his temptations, but he that is also the true God (for Adam in his state of innocency was overcome by them, and fell under them:) But Jesus the son of the Virgin did overcome them all by his own power; there ore (see Gen. 3. 15. Isa. 51. 9. Isa. 63. 5. Matth. 4. Luke 4.) he is very God as well as very man.
Fourthly, There was never any meer man able, by his own power, to overcome the Devil in all his temptations, but he that is also the true God (for Adam in his state of innocency was overcome by them, and fell under them:) But Jesus the sonne of the Virgin did overcome them all by his own power; there ore (see Gen. 3. 15. Isa. 51. 9. Isa. 63. 5. Matth. 4. Luke 4.) he is very God as well as very man.
Fifthly, There was never any that did call himself the true God (and was not) which did please God in so doing, But Jesus the son of Mary did call himself the true God, or account himself equal with God (which is all one) yet God was well pleased with him,1