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A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and…
A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and the opposition made against it by Edward Borough, a professed Quaker, (but proved an enemy to the truth) examined and confuted by the word of God. And also, the things that were then laid down, and declared to the world by me, are a second-time born witness to, according to truth: with the answer of Edward Borough to the queries then laid down in my book reproved. And also, a plain answer to his queries, given in simplicity of soul; and is now also presented to the world, or who else may read, or hear them; to the end (if God will) that truth may be discovered thereby. / by John Bunyan ...A vindication of the book called, Some Gospel-truths opened; according to the Scriptures, and the opposition made against it by Edward Borrough, a professed Quaker, (but proved an enemie to the truth) examined and confuted by the word of God. And also, the things that were then laid down, and declared to the world by me, are a second-time born witness to, according to truth: with the answer of Edward Burrough to the quæries then laid down in my book reproved. And also, a plain answer to his quæries, given in simplicitie of soul; and is now also presented to the world, or who else may read, or hear them; to the end (if God will) that truth may be discovered thereby. / by John Bunyan ...
London: printed by Matthias Cowley, 1657
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But now, no man can be saved without Christ, or the Spirit of Christ be given to him, because he cannot be able to lay hold savingly of, and to hope for that glory that Christ as he is God-man hath accomplished in his own person without, unless he have the Spirit. But farther, thou sayest; It is not the whole mystery of salvation, God manifested in the flesh?
But now, no man can be saved without Christ, or the Spirit of Christ be given to him, because he cannot be able to lay hold savingly of, and to hope for that glory that Christ as he is God-man hath accomplished in his own person without, unless he have the Spirit. But farther, thou saiest; It is not the whole mystery of salvation, God manifested in the flesh?
Answ. Truly to know that God out of love to poor sinners, did in the ⟨p. 45⟩fullness of time send forth his only begotten Son, who is equal with his Father, to be born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, that he might receive the adoption of sons; this is to know the mystery of godliness. Therefore, when the Scriptures say, God was manifested in the flesh, they mean, God sent forth his Son, which was and is the Word of God, God himself, and he was made flesh, Joh 1.14. And so in the nature of man he did become the Lamb of God, or the sacrifice of God, that doth take away the sins of the world, ver. 29 Now here I might enlarge abundantly, but that I would not be tedious.
Answ. Truly to know that God out of love to poor sinners, did in the ⟨p. 45⟩fulness of time send forth his onely begotten Son, who is equall with his Father, to be born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, that he might receive the adoption of sons; this is to know the mystery of godliness. Therefore, when the Scriptures say, God was manifested in the flesh, they mean, God sent forth his Son, which was and is the Word of God, God himself, and he was made flesh, Joh 1.14. And so in the nature of man he did become the Lamb of God, or the sacrifice of God, that doth take away the sins of the world, ver. 29 Now here I might enlarge abundantly, but that I would not be tedious.