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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.
Q•. But why was he true God and true man?
Answ. He was true man, because man had offended, and Justice required that man should suffer and make satisfaction, and so it is written 1 Cor. 1 5. 21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. And again, All we like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all. And ⟨p. 188⟩in 1 Pet. 2. 24. where that 53. of Isaiah is mentioned, he saith, Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes we are healed. And again, God did prepare this body, the humane nature of Christ, that it should be a sacrifice for sins, wherefore he saith, Sacrifices and offerings (that is such as were offered by the Law of Moses) thou wouldest not have; but a body hast thou prepared me, Heb. 10. 5. In this body which God had prepared for him, which he took of the virgin, Gal. 4. 4. in this he did bear all the sins of all his elect, 1 Pet. 2. 24.
Answ. He was true man, because man had offended, and Justice required that man should suffer and make satisfaction, and so it is written 1 Cor. 1 5. 21. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. And again, All we like sheep have gone astray, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all. And