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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.
I shall not stand here to dispute any distinctions of the resurrections, only prove that the dead shall arise; and that is a clear truth from the Scriptures, ⟨p. 150⟩Acts 10. 42. Rev. 20 11 12, 13, 14. and 1 Thes. 4. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 52. the dead shall be raised.
2. He shall call all men and women to an account for all their close sinful thoughts, words, and actions; then will the secrets of all hearts be made manifest. Then shall all thy adulterous, and thievish, and covetous, idolatrous, and blasphemous thoughts be laid open, according to that saying, Their consciences also bearing them witness, and their thoughts the mean time, or while, accusing, or else excusing one another, Rom. 2. 15. But when? why, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, ver. 16. see also 1 Cor. 4. 5. Therefore judge nothing before the time; what time is that? why, when the Lord comes; what will he do? He will bring to light the hidden things of darknes••, that is, all those cunning, ⟨p. 151⟩close, hidden wickednesses, that thou in thy life time hast committed; yea, he will make manifest the counsels of the heart; that is, the most hidden and secret things that are contrived and plotted by the sons of men; Then shall all the midnight whoremongers be laid open with all their sins; Then thou (it may be) who hast committed such sins as thou wouldst not have thy Neighbour, thy father, thy wife, thy husband, or any one else know of for thousands, then thou shalt have them all laid open, even upon the house tops,