Quest. 3. Thirdly, What it was for Jesus to be of this Mans Seed according to the Promise.
1. This Word [Promise] doth sometimes com∣prehend all the Promises which God made to our Fathers from the first Promise to the last; and
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.
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- 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.
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- Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A30167.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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so the Holy Ghost doth call them. The Promise made unto the Fathers, God hath fulfilled the same to us their Children, Acts 13. 32, 33.
2. But the word Promise here, doth in spe∣cial intend that which God made to David him∣self. Men and Brethren, said Peter, let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his Sepulcher is with us unto this day: therefore being a Prophet, and know∣ing that God had sworn with an Oath to him, that of the Fruit of his Loins according to the Flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne; he seeing this before, spake of the Resurrection of Christ, &c. Acts 2. 29, 30.