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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.
And these things thou seest not overly, or slightly, and as at a great distance, but really, and ⟨p. 84⟩seriously, and the sense of them sticks close unto thee. Secondly, it shows thee that thou hast no faith in the man Christ Jesus by nature, and that though thou hadst no other sins, yet thou art in a perishing state because o• unbelief, according to that 16. of John v. 9. of Sin, because they believe not on me. If therefore thou hast been convinced aright by the Spirit, thou hast seen that thou hadst no faith in Christ the Son of Mary, the Son of God, before conversion. It shows thee also, that thou canst not believe in thine own strength, though thou wouldst never so willingly, yea though thou wouldst give all the world (if thou hadst it) to believe,1 thou couldst not. In the next place It will show thee, that if thou doest not believe in the Man Christ Jesus, And that with the faith of the operation of God, *thou wilt surely perish, and that without remedy. Also ⟨p. 85⟩it shows thee that if thou hast not that righteousness, which the Man Christ Jesus accomplished in his own person for sinners, I say if thou be not clothed with that, in stead of thine own, thou art gone for ever and therefore saith Christ, (speaking of the Spirit) when he is come, he shall reprove the world of Sir, and of righteousness too, That is, The Spirit shall convince men and women of the sufficiency, of that righteousness that Christ in his humane nature hath fulfilled: So that they need not run to the law for righteousness; for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believeth, Rom. 10. 4. Again, if the Spirit of Jesus set eth home the Law upon thy conscience, thou wilt freely confess, that although the law curseth, & condemneth thee for thy sins, and gives thee no power either to fulfil it, or to come out of thy ⟨p. 86⟩