The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His WorksBunyan, John
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The Riches of Bunyan: Selected from His Works
Bunyan, John
Theology, Doctrinal
A believer is to do nothing for justification, only believe and be
saved; though the law be a rule for every one that believes to walk
by, it is not for justification. But if you do not put a difference
between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and
sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, teaching
believers their duty to their God for his love in giving Christ, you
are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you
corrupt the word of God, and cast stumbling-blocks before the
people, and will certainly one day most deeply smart for your folly,
except you repent.
To those who do believe in Christ aright, and lay him for their
foundation: see that you are laborers after a more experimental
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; fly more to his birth, death,
blood, resurrection, ascension, and intercession, and fetch
refreshing for your souls more and more from him without, through
the operation of his Spirit within; and though the fruits of the
Spirit be excellent, and to be owned where they are found, yet have
a care you take not away the glory of the blood of Christ shed on
the cross without the gates of Jerusalem, and give it them; which
you will do, if you content yourselves and satisfy your consciences
with this--that you find the fruits of the Spirit within you--and do
not go for peace and consolation of conscience to the blood of Jesus
shed on the cross.
Therefore learn of the saints, or rather of the Spirit, who teaches
to sing this song, "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." Rev. 5: 9.
And as for you that cannot yet well endure to think that you should
be justified by the blood of the Son of Mary shed on the cross
without the gate, I say to you, "Kiss the Son, lest he he angry and
ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little:
blessed are all they that put their trust in him." Psa. 2:12.
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 give is my flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world."
The Holy Ghost breatheth nowhere so as in the ministry of this
doctrine; this doctrine is sent with the Holy Ghost from heaven.
What is the church of God redeemed by from the curse of the law? It
is by something done within them, or by something done without them.
If you say it is redeemed by something that worketh in them, then
why did the man Christ Jesus hang on the cross on Calvary, without
the gate of Jerusalem, for the sins of his children? and why do the
Scriptures say that "through this man is preached to us the
forgiveness of sins?"
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