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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.
you may clearly ⟨p. 118⟩find it so to be. And therefore if he come again in like manner, he must come again with the same body wherewith he was crucified.
you may cleerly ⟨p. 118⟩find it so to be. And therefore if he come againe in like manner, he must come againe with the same body wherewith he was crucified.
Object. But you will say, The Scripture saith, he that descended is the same that ascended, which to me (say you) implies, none but the spirits ascending.
Answ. For answer, We do not say, (as I said before) that it is another that ascended, but the very same. That is, the very same Christ, that was with the father from everlasting, did come down from heaven. That same Christ also that came down from heaven did ascend up thither again: only, he descended without a body from heaven, and took flesh and blood upon him from the Virgin. And though he descended without a body, yet (he) the very same Christ, that descended without a body, the same did ascend again with a body, even ⟨p. 119⟩that very body that he took of the virgin Mary, 1See Luke 24. from 39 to the 51. verses. Now let me give you a Similitude, for it is warrantable; for both Christ and his Apostles did sometimes use them,