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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.
This Covenant, or Bargain, had these conditions in it.
First, that the Saviour should take upon him flesh and blood, the same nature that the sons of men were partakers of (sin only excepted) Heb. 2. 14. Heb. 4. 15. And this was the will or agreement that God had made with him: And therefore when he speaks of doing the will of God, Heb. 10. 5. he saith, a body hast thou prepared me (as according to thy promise, Gen. 3. 15. which I was to take of a woman) and in it I am come to do thy will O God, as it is written of me in the volume of thy Book, v. 7.
First, that the Saviour should take upon him flesh and blood, the same nature that the sonnes of men were partakers of (sinne onely excepted) Heb. 2. 14. Heb. 4. 15. And this was the will or agreement that God had made with him: And therefore when he speaks of doing the will of God, Heb. 10. 5. he saith, a body hast thou prepared me (as according to thy promise, Gen. 3. 15. which I was to take of a woman) and in it I am come to do thy will O God, as it is written of me in the volume of thy Book, v. 7.