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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.
Answ. First, for answer, It is clear from Joh. 1. 1. that the word,1 or Son of God, as he was a Spirit, was with the Father before the world was. But now, in the fullness of time, that is, when that time that the Father and he had concluded on, was come,2 God sent forth his son (which was with him before the world was Joh. 7. 5.) made of a woman, that is born of a woman. And he took on him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men, Phil. 2. 6, 7 Now as he was borne of a woman, as he was in the likeness of men, •o he ascended to the right hand of his Father, in our nature And for this, I pray turn to Act. 1.3 and there you shall find, that he is the same that was born of the Virgin, that very ⟨p. 116⟩man that was crucified; if you compare v. 3 with v. 9, 10, 11. you will find it so to be. Now in the v. 9. after he had spoken many things, while they beheld, that is, while his disciples looked on him, he was taken up, that is, he was taken up from them into heaven, as in v. 11. and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked up steadfastly towards heaven, as he went up (which heaven, was not within them; if it had, they needed not to have looked toward the clouds and the heaven without them) behold two men stood by them, not in them, in white apparel, which also said (that is, the two men, or Angels which stood by them said) Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Here again, they did not look within them, but stood gazing or looking after the Lord Jesus, the son of Mary, who was carried away from ⟨p. 117⟩them in a cloud, v. 9. But why (say the Angels) do you stand gazing so much into heaven: your Master will come again after a certain time.