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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.
Thou thinkest that thou art a Christian; thou shouldst be sorry else; well, but when did God show thee that thou wert no Christian? when didst thou see that? and in the light of the spirit of Christ see that thou wert under the wrath of God because of original sin? Nay, dost thou know what original sin means? Is it not the least in thy thoughts? and dost thou not rejoice in secret that thou art the same that thou ever wert?1 If so. then know for certain that the wrath of God to this very day abideth on thee, Joh. 3. 36. And if so, then thou art one of those that will fall in the judgement, except thou art born again, and made a new creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17.
Thou thinkest that thou art a Christian; thou shouldst be sorry else; well, but when did God shew thee that thou wert no Christian? when didst thou see that? and in the light of the spirit of Christ see that thou wert under the wrath of God because of original sin? Nay, dost thou know what original sin means? Is it not the least in thy thoughts? and dost thou not rejoyce in secret that thou art the same that thou ever wert?1 If so. then know for certain that the wrath of God to this very day abideth on thee, Joh. 3. 36. And if so, then thou art one of those that will fall in the judgement, except thou art born again, and made a new creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17.
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