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sin_n	condemn_v	flesh_n	likeness_n	3,708	5	10.8945	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30208	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 ...	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1656 (1656)	Wing B5598; ESTC R34771	92,539	312

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. But secondly thou thinkest that thou hast been born again 't is well if thou hast but least thou shouldst deceive thy poor soul I pray thee consider when did the spirit of the Lord Jesus shew thee that thou hadst no faith in thee by nature and when did the spirit of Christ convince thee of sin because thou didst not believe in him It may be thou hast been convinced of sins against the Law by the Law and thy own conscience as the Pharisees were Joh. 8. 9. and Rom. 3. 20. I but when didst thou see thy self a lost creature for want of faith in the son of Mary if not thou hast not yet been savingly convinced by the spirit of Christ for that when it convinceth effectually of sin it convinceth of unbeliefe though thou hast been never so much convinced of sins against the Law if thou hast not seen thy self under the power and dominion guilt and punishment of ●in because thou didst not believe in Christ thou hast not yet been savingly convinced for that 's one work of the spirit to convince of sin because they believe not on me saith Jesus the Son of Mary who was espoused to Joseph the Carpenter But on the contrary dost thou not say in thy heart thou never hadst thy faith to seek but hast alway believed with as good a faith as any one alive If so then know for certain that thou hast no faith of the operation of God in thee according to Gods ordinary working and if so then know that if the Son of man should come to judge the world at this moment of time that thou with all thy faith thou thinkest thou hast wouldst fall in the judgement 2 Thes. 2. 12. 3. Art thou born again then thou seest that thy great sin was want of faith in the Son of Mary Then thou seest that it is he that was sent of God to die for the sins of the world J●h ● 19 Jo. 3. 16 17 18 19. Act 13 38 39. and that thou art compleat in him without any works of the Law Rom. 4. 4. the● thou rejoycest in Christ Jesus and puttest no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. yet thou rejoycest in the flesh and blood of the son of Mary knowing that his flesh is meat indeed and his blood is drink indeed Joh. 6. 55. out of which thou wouldst very willingly make thy life all thy daies out of his birth obedience death resurrection ascension and glorious intercession now at the right hand of his father Heb. 7. 24 25. but if thou art wavering in these things know that thou art but a babe at the best and for ought thou knowest God maycut thee off in thy unbelief and cast thee into utter darkness where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth 4. Art thou born again then thou seest all true peace and joy comes through the blood of the son of Mary and his righteousnesse as in Rom. 7. 24. 1 Cor. 15. 57. there are many poor souls that are taken with raptures of joy and false conceited consolation Joh. 16 20. which doth come from the Divel and their own deceitful hearts but their joy shall be turned into mourning and sorrow of heart Luke 6. 24 25. but thou that art a Christian indeed and not in word onely rejoycest in Christ Jesus the son of Ma●y yea though now you see him not yet believing you rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. And these two things are the fruits of thy faith and of thy joy 1. The Lord Jesus Christ is very precious unto thee 1 Pet. 2. ver 7. 2. Thou dost purifie thine heart by this faith and the power of the spirit of Christ which thou hast received into thy soul Rom. 8. 13. Acts 15. 9. and 1 Joh. 3. 3. but if thy guilt of sin goes off and convictions go off any other way then by the blood and righteousness of the man Christ Jesus thy guilt goes off not right but wrong and thy latter end will be a very bitter end without faith and repentance for it is his blood through which all true peace comes Col. 1. 20. and there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we should be saved but by the Lord Jesus of Nazareth Acts 4. ver 10 11 12. compared together 5. Art thou borne againe Then thou canst not be quiet till thou doest see God lift up the light of his Countenance upon thee yea thou hast such a desire after the light of Gods countenance that all the glory riches honour pleasure profits c. of this world will not satisfie till thou doest see God to be a reconciled father to thee in the Lord Jesus Christ as it is Psal. 4. 6. Joh. 14. 8. Ps. 35. 3. then thou wilt not be quiet till thou doest hear from the son of Mary which is the Lord of glory 1 Cor 2. 8. such a voice as this Son be of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee and My grace is sufficient for thee But if thou canst content thy selfe with any thing below this thou wilt when all comes to all be found but a rotten-hearted professor who wilt have thy portion among the slothfull ones who will fall in the judgement of the son of Man when he comes in flaming fire with his mighty Angels 2 Thes. 1. 8. 6. Art thou borne againe Then thou knowest that God hath given thee thy faith that thou hast in his son then thou art able to say through grace there was a time in which I had no faith there was a time in which I could not believe in the son of God for eternal life But G●d who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved me even when I was dead in sins and unbelief which is the greatest hath quickned me together with Christ by grace I am saved Eph. 2. 4 5. through faith v. 8. 7. Art thou borne againe Then thou knowest that the doctrine of the Son of God the son of Mary is a right doctrine which is this First that the Son of God which was with his Father before the world was Joh. 1. 1. John 17. 5. came into the world in the fulnesse of time and was made in the likenesse of Men Phil. 2. 7. being made of a woman or virgin made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law Gal. 4. 4. And that was done in this wise What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh that is through our flesh God sending his own Son in the likenesse of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh that is condemned him in the flesh for the sins of poor sinners For this compare Rom. 8. 3. and 2 Cor. 5. 21. with Gal. 3. 13. and it will appeare

Spirit of the Lord Jesus upon my Conscience Answ. Unto this I answer First when the Law doth convince by its own power without the help of the spirit of Christ it doth only convince of sins against the Law as of swearing lying stealing murdering adultery covetousness and the like I say it doth only make manifest sins against the Law pronouncing an horrible curse against thee if thou fulfill it not and so leaves thee but it gives thee no strength to fulfill it compleatly and continually which thou must do if tho● wilt be saved thereby Now thy own strenth being insufficient for these things having lost it in Adam thou art a breaker of the Law Here the Law finds thee in the Sins and condemns thee for thy sins but gives thee no power to come wholly out of them neither doth it shew thee thy right Saviour to save thee from them which is the son of the Virgin Mary the Man Christ Jesus but commands thee upon pai● of eternal d●mnation to continue in all things that are written in the book of the Law to do them Gal. 3. 10. And therefore if thou hast been convinced of no other Sins but wh●t are against the Law for all thy convictions and horrour of Conscience thou mayest be but a Natural●man at the best and so unde●●he curse Gal. 3. 10. But perhaps thou wilt say I am not only convinced of my sins against the law I have also some power against my sins so that I do in some considerable measure abstain from those things that are forbidden in the Law This thou mayest have and do as thou thinkest perfectly as those blinde Pharises called Quakers do think that they also do and yet be but a natural man And therefore I pray consider that place in Rom. 2. 14. the Apostle there speaks on this wise concerning the Gentiles obedience to the law For when the Gentiles which have not the law do by N●ture the things contained in the law these having not the law are a law unto themselves which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts Which work of the law Christ as he is God hath enlightned every one withall that cometh into the world Joh. 1. 19. which as the Quakers say doth convince of Sin yet of no other than sins against the Law and therefore must needs be all one light or law for the law is light Prov. 6. 23. and gives the knowledge of Sin Rom. 3. 20. And therefore as I said before so say I now again If thy convictions are not other then for the sins against the Law though thy obedience be the strictest that ever was wrought by any man except the Lord Jesus the son of Mary thou art at the best but under the Law and so consequently under the Curse and under the wrath of God Gal. 3. 10. Joh. 3. 36. whether thou believest it or not But now the second thing how thou shouldest know whether the Spirit of Christ doth effectually set home the law upon thy Conscience or not And therefore to speak directly to it If the Spirit of the Lord Jesus the Son of God doth set home the Law effectually then the same Spirit of Christ shewes thee more sin then the Sinnes against the Law For first it shews thee That all thy righteousnesse is but as filthy-rags Isa. 64. 6. Thou seest all thy praying meditation hearing reading almes-deeds fasting reformation and whatsoever else thou hast done doest or canst doe being an unbeliever deserves at the hands of God his curse and condemnation and that for ever And therefore thou art so far from trusting to it that in some measure thou even loathest it and art ashamed of it as being a thing abominable both in Gods sight and thine own Thou countest thy own performances when at best and thine own righteousnesse a bed too short to stretch thy selfe upon and a covering 109 narrow to wrap thy selfe in Isa. 28. 20. And these things thou seest not overly or slightly and as at a great distance but realy and seriously and the sense of them sticks close unto thee Secondly it shews thee that thou hast no faith in the man Christ Jesus by nature and that though thou hadst no other sins yet thou art in a perishing state because o● unbelief according to that 16. of John v. 9. of Sin because they believe not on me If therefore thou hast been convinced arigh● by the Spirit thou hast seen that thou hadst no faith in Christ the Sonne of Mary the Sonne of God before conversion It shews thee also that thou canst not believe in thine owne strength though thou wouldst never so willingly yea though thou wouldst give all the world if thou hadst it to believe thou couldst not In the next place It will shew thee that if thou doest not believe in the Man Christ Jesus And that with the faith of the operation of God thou wilt surely perish and that without remedy Also it shews thee that if thou hast not that righteousnesse which the Man Christ Jesus accomplished in his own person for sinners I say if thou be not clo thed with that in stead of thine owne thou art gone for ever and therefore saith Christ speaking of the Spirit when he is come he shall reprove the world of Sir and of righteousness too That is The Spirit shall convince men and women of the sufficiencie of that righteousness that Christ in his humane nature hath fulfilled So that they need not run to the law for righteousness for Christ is the end of the law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth Rom. 10. 4. Again if the Spirit of Jesus set eth home the Law upon thy conscience thou wilt freely confesse that although the law curseth condemneth thee for thy sins and gives thee no power either to fulfill it or to come out of thy sins yet God is just in giving that law And the Law is ●oly and the Commandment hol and just and good Rom. 7. 12. Lastly it also convinceth of Judgement to come He viz. the Spirit shall reprove the world of Sin of Righteousnesse yea and of Judgement too Then doth the soul see that that very Man that was borne of the Virgin Mary crucified upon the crosse without the gates of Jerusalem shall so come againe even ●hat same Jesus in like manner as he was seen to go up from his Disciples Yea they that are thus convinced by the Spirit of Christ know that God hath appointed a day in which he will Judge the world in righteousnesse by that Man whom he hath ordained which is the Man Christ Jesus for it is he that is ordained of God to be the Judge of quicke and dead Acts 10. 42. And now O man or woman who ever thou art that art savingly convinced by the Spirit of Christ thou hast such an endless desire after the Lord Jesus Christ that thou canst not be satisfied