Commentary Daniel 6
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John Bunyan 2
... if that light that every human receives were able, by our following it, to save us, then Christis needed not to have suffered, seeing all men had that light. If and that light that every man hath, which is conscience, were able to safely lead a man to justification by following it, that promise was made in vain by Jesus the Son of Mary, when he said, “I will send you (mark I will send you) the Spirit, and he shall lead you into all truth" for they had a light before. But it is evident, that that of was not sufficient, because they must have another sent them by Jesus Christ, and that must be the Spirit.
John Bunyan 1
Well, after many such longings in my mind, the God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand, one day, a book of Martin Luther; it was his comment on the Galatians - it also was so old that it was ready to fall piece from piece if I did but turn it over. Now I was pleased much that such an old book had fallen into my hands; the which, when I had but a little way perused, I found my condition, in his experience, so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart. This made me marvel; for thus thought I, This man could not know anything of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days.
Besides, he doth most gravely, also, in that book, debate of the rise of these temptations, namely, blasphemy, desperation, and the like; showing that the law of Moses as well as the devil, death, and hell hath a very great hand therein, the which, at first, was very strange to me; but considering and watching, I found it so indeed. But of particulars here I intend nothing; only this, methinks, I must let fall before all men, I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians, excepting the Holy Bible, before all the books that ever I have seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience. Grace Abounding
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