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A30167	Light for them that sit in darkness, or, A discourse of Jesus Christ, and that he undertook to accomplish by himself the eternal redemption of sinners also, that the Lord Jesus addressed himself to this work, with undeniable demonstrations that he performed the same : objections to the contrary answered / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1675 (1675)	Wing B5554; ESTC R19879	89,163	194

is the Highest Name the Everlasting Name the Name that he is to go by to be known by to be worshipped by and to be glorified by yea the Name by which also most Glory shall redound to God the Father Now what is the Signification of this Name but SAVIOUR This Name he hath therefore for his Works Sake and because God delighted in his Undertaking and was pleased with the Price he had paid for us therefore the Divine Majesty hath given him it hath made it High and hath commanded all Angels to bow unto it Yea it is the Name in which he resteth and by which he hath magnified all his Attributes 1. This is the Name by which Sinners should go to God the Father 2. This is the Name through which they obtain forgiveness of Sins and ANY thing If you ask anything in my Name I will do it John 14. 3. This is the Name through which our spiritual Services and Sacrifices are accepted and by which an Answer of Peace is returned into our Bosoms 1 Pet. 2. But more of this anon 3. At this Name Devils tremble at THIS Name Angels bow the Head at THIS Name God's Heart openeth at THIS Name the Godly Man's Heart is comforted THIS Name none but Devils hate it and none but those that must be damned despise it No man speaking by the Holy Ghost calls Jesus accursed or accounteth him still dead and his Blood ineffectual to save the World 3dly He hath also given him the Glory of Office 1. He is there a Priest for ever intercepting betwixt the Divine Presence and all that hate us by his Blood Sin Satan Death Hell the Law the Grave or the like cannot be heard if his Blood be presented to God as the Atonement for us This is called the Blood of Sprinkling which speaks better things than the Blood of Abel Heb. 12. 24. By this Blood he entered into Heaven by this Blood he secureth from wrath all that come unto God by him but should his Blood have had a Voice in Heaven to save withal had it not merited first even in the Shedding of it the Ransom and Redemption of Souls 'T is true a Man whose Blood cannot save may with Abels cry out for Vengeance and Wrath on the Head of him that shed it but THIS Blood speaks for better things this Blood speaks for Souls for Sinners for Pardon Having obtained Eternal Redemption for us 2. He is there a Fore-runner for us Whither the Fore-runner is for us entered even Jesus Heb. 6. 20. This Office of Harbinger is distinct from though it comes by vertue of his Priestly Office therefore they are both mentioned in the Text Whither the Fore-runner is for us entered even Jesus made an High-Priest for ever after the Order of Melchisedec He is therefore our Fore-runner by vertue of his Priesthood his Blood giving worth to all he does In this Office of Harbinger or Fore-runner he prepareth for Believers their dwelling-Places in the Heavens their dwelling-Places according to their Place State Calling Service or Work in his Body the Church In my Fathers House saith he are many Mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a Place for you Joh. 14. This is that is mentioned in the 47th Psalm He shall chuse our Inheritance for us the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved But should he have had Power to chuse our Inheritance for us to prepare for us our dwelling-Places should he have Power to give even Heaven itself to a Company of Poor Men had he not in the first Place obtained by his Blood the Deliverance of our Soul from Death 3. He is there a Prophet for us by which Office of his he hath received to communicate the whole Will of the Eternal God so far as is fit for us to know in this World or in that which is to come Hence he is called the Prophet of the Church The Lord shall raise you up a Prophet and this is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the World But this Office he hath also now in Heaven by vertue of the Blood he shed for us upon Earth Hence the New-Testament is called The New-Testament in his Blood and his Blood is said to be The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant or Testament Yea such vertue doth his Blood give to the New-Testament or Covenant of Grace as that severed from that it is nothing worth for a Testament is of force after men are dead otherwise it is of no strength at all while the Testator liveth Heb. 9. 16 17. So that every Word of God which he hath by Christ given to us for our Everlasting Consolation is dipt in blood is founded in blood and stands good to Sinners purely I mean with respect to merit upon the account of Blood or because his Blood that was shed for us on the Cross prevailed for us for the Remission of our Sins Let no man think to receive any benefit by Christs Prophetical Office by any of the good Words of Grace and forgiveness of Sins that are sprinkled up and down in the New-Testament That looketh not for that good to come to him for the Sake of that Blood by which this Testament is established For neither was the First Testament dedicated without Blood for when Moses had spoken every Precept to all the People according to the Law He took the Blood of Calves and of Goats with Water and scarlet Wool and Hissop and sprinkled both the Book and all the People saying This is the Blood of the Testament which God hath injoyned unto you Heb. 9. 18 19 20. The Prophetical Office of Christ standeth of two parts First in Promises of Grace Secondly in Directions of Worship but neither is this last to wit the Doctrine of Worship or our subjection to that Worship of any value any further than as sprinkled also with his Blood For as in the first Testament the Tabernacle and all the Vessels of the Ministry were sprinkled with Blood and it was necessary that so it should be so the Heavenly Things themselves must be also purified with Sacrifices but yet with better Sacrifice than these for now not Moses but Christ doth sprinkle not with Blood of Calves but with his own Blood neither as entered into places made with Hands but from Heaven doth Jesus sprinkle all that Doctrine of Worship subjection of his Saints thereto which is of his own instituting and commanding Heb. 9. 23 24 25 26. 4. He hath received there the Office of a King by which he ruleth in the Church and over all things for her sake The Government is laid upon his Shoulders the Lord God hath given him the Throne of his Father David Hence it is that he saith All Power is given me in Heaven and Earth but now this Kingly Office he hath it by his Blood because he humbled himself to death therefore God hath highly exalted him and given him the Highest

Sin but that we could not be were it not that an Atonement is made for us first by the Blood of Christ our Saviour This is true for they that are quickned by the Holy Ghost are quickned by it through the Word of the Gospel which offereth Justification to Sinners through Faith in his Blood yea we are said to be quickned together with him dead and risen with him yet so as by the Spirit of God 2. We are not only quickned by the Holy Ghost but possessed therewith it is given to dwell in our Hearts Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts Gal. 4. 4 5 6. which Spirit is also our earnest for Heaven until the Redemption of the purchased Possession that is until our Body which is the purchased Possession be redeemed also out of the Grave by the Power of the same mighty Spirit of God Ephes. 1. 13 14. 3. By this Holy Spirit we are made to believe Rom. 15. 13. 4. By this Holy Spirit we are helped to pray and call God Father 5. By this Holy Spirit we are helped to understand and apply the Promises 6. By this Holy Spirit the Joy of Heaven and the Love of God is shed abroad in the Heart of the Saved 7. By this Holy Spirit we are made to wait for the hope of Righteousness by Faith that is to stand fast through our Lord Jesus in the day when he shall judg the World And all this is the Fruit of Redemption by Blood of Redemption by the Blood of Christ. This is yet further evident 1. Because the Work of the Spirit is to lead us into the sayings of Christ which as to our Redemption from death are such as these I lay down my Life that you may have Life I give my Life a Ransom for many And the Bread which I will give is my Flesh which I will give for the Life of the World Joh. 6. 2. Because IF the Spirit in the Wisdom of Heaven is not counted a sufficient Testimony on Earth but as joyned with the Blood of Christ. There are three that bear witness on Earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood These are the Witness of God The Spirit because it quickneth the Blood because it hath merited and the Watter to wit the Word because by that we are clean as to life and conversation 1 John 5. 8. Ephes. 5. 26. Rom. 8. 16. Psal. 119. 9. 3. Because as by the Spirit so we are sanctified by Faith in the Blood of Jesus Heb. 13. 12. 4. Because when most full of the Spirit when that doth work most mightly in us we are then most in the belief and admiring apprehensions of our deliverance from death by the Blood of Jesus Revel 15. Chap. 5. 9. 5. The Holy Ghost breaheth no-where so as in the Ministry of this Doctrine this Doctrine is sent WITH the Holy Ghost from Heaven yea as I have hinted one of the Great Works of the Holy Ghost under the Old-Testament was to testifie of the Sufferings of Christ and the Glory that should follow 1 Pet. 1. 11 12. Put all these things together and see if Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath not paid full price to God for Sinners if he hath not obtained Eternal Redemption for them The Fourth Demonstration THat Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid full price to God for Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them is evident if you consider how the preaching thereof hath been from that time to this a mighty Conquerer over all kind of Sinners What Nation what People what kind of Sinners have not been subdued by the preaching of a Crucified Christ. He upon the White Horse with his Bow and his Crown hath conquered doth conquer and goeth forth yet conquering and to conquer Revel 6. 2. And I saith he if I be lifted up from the Earth will draw all men unto me but what was it to be lifted up from the Earth Why it may be expounded by that saying As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 12. 32. Chap. 3. 14 15. He was then lifted up when he was hanged upon a Tree between the Heavens and the Earth as the Accursed of God for us The Revelation of this it conquers all Nations Tongues and People And they sang a new Song saying thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation Revel 5. 9. Hence the Apostle Paul chose above all Doctrines to preach up a Crucified Christ and resolved so to do For I determined saith he not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor. 2. 2 3. 1. The Doctrine of Forgiveness of Sin conquered his very Murderers They could not withstand the Grace them bloody ones that would kill him what-ever it cost them could stand no longer but received his Doctrine fell into his Bosom and obtained the Salvation which is in Christ Jesus They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son they shall be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for his first-born Zech. 12. 10. Now was this Scripture eminently fulfilled when the Kindness of a Crucified Christ broke to pieces the Hearts of them that had before been his Betrayers and Murderers Now was there a great mourning in Jerusalem now was there wailing and lamentation mixed with joy and rejoycing 2. Though Paul was mad exceeding mad against Jesus Christ of Nazareth yea though he was his avowed Enemy seeking to put out his Name from under Heaven yet the Voice from Heaven I am Jesus c. I am the Saviour how did it conquer him make him throw down his Arms fall down at his Feet and accept of the forgiveness of Sins freely by grace through Redemption by Faith in his Blood 3. They at Samaria though before Philip preached to them worshipped and admired the Devil in Magus yet when they believed Philip's preaching of Christ unto them and forgiveness of sins through Faith in his Name great joy was amongst them and they were baptized both Men and Women Act. 8. He preached saith the Text the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ that is all the Blessings of Life through the Name of Jesus Christ for he is the Mediator and without his Blood come no spiritual blessings to men 4. How was the sturdy Jailer overcome by a Promise of forgiveness of sins by Faith in Jesus Christ. It stopt his Hand of self-murder it eased him of the gnawings of a guilty Conscience and fears of Hell-Fire and filled his Soul with rejoicing in God Act. 16. 30 31 32 33. 5. How