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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.
But if he be prevented in this his intended purpose; the next thing he doth beset thee with, is to make thee rest upon thy own righteousness, telling thee, that if thou wilt needs be saved, thou must ⟨image 16⟩earn heaven with thy fingers ends; and it may be, he represents to thy soul such a Scripture; if thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? And thou having (but in the strength of nature) kept thy self from thy former grosser pollutions, and it may be from some more secret sins, art ready to conclude, now thou dost well; now God accepts thee; now he will pardon, yea, hath pardoned thee; now thy condition is good: & so goest on till thou meetest with a searching word, and Ministry, which tells thee, and discovers plainly unto thee, that thou doest all this while deceive thy self, by a vain hope and confidence; for though thou seek after the Law of righteousness, ⟨image 17⟩thou hast not yet attained to the Law of righteousness, nor yet canst, because, thou seekest not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law, Rom. 9. 31, 32. Here again, thou art left in the mire, and now peradventure thou seest, that thou art not profited by the works of the Law; nor thy own righteousness: And this makes thee stir a little, but in process of time, (through the subtle sleights of the devil and the wickedness of thine own heart;) thou forgettest thy trouble of Conscience, and and slippest into a notion of the Gospel, and the grace thereof; and now thou thinkest thy self cock sure: Now thou art able to say, he that lives and dies in his sins shall ⟨image 17⟩be damned for them: he that trusts in his own righteousness shall not be saved: Now thou canst cry Grace, Grace, its freely by grace, its through the death of the man Christ Jesus, that sinners do attain unto eternal life, Heb. 9. 14. This I say thou hast in the notion, and hast not the power of the same in thine heart, and so it may be thine head is full of the knowledge of the Scriptures, though thine heart be empty of sanctifying grace. And thus thou do •st rejoice for a time: yet because thou hast not the root of the matter within thee, in time of temptation thou fallest away,