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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners-Part13_JOHN BUNYAN(1628-1688)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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then His righteousness was mine, His merits mine, His victory also

mine. Now could I see myself in heaven and earth at once: in



heaven by my Christ, by my head, by my righteousness and life,

though on earth by my body or person.



234. Now I saw Christ Jesus was looked upon of God; and should

also be looked upon by us, as that common or public person, in whom



all the whole body of His elect are always to be considered and

reckoned; that we fulfilled the law by Him, died by Him, rose from



the dead by Him, got the victory over sin, death, the devil, and

hell, by Him; when He died, we died, and so of His resurrection.



THY DEAD MEN SHALL LIVE, TOGETHER WITH MY DEAD BODY SHALL THEY

ARISE, saith He. Isa. xxvi. 19. And again, AFTER TWO DAYS HE WILL



REVIVE US, AND THE THIRD DAY HE WILL RAISE US UP, AND WE SHALL LIVE

IN HIS SIGHT. Hosea vi. 2. Which is now fulfilled by the sitting



down of the Son of Man on the right hand of the Majesty in the

heavens; according to that to the EPHESIANS, AND HATH RAISED US UP



TOGETHER, AND MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST

JESUS. Eph. ii. 6.



235. Ah! these blessed considerations and scriptures, with many

others of like nature, were in those days made to spangle in mine



eyes; so that I have cause to say, PRAISE YE THE LORD. PRAISE GOD

IN HIS SANCTUARY, PRAISE HIM IN THE FIRMAMENT OF HIS POWER; PRAISE



HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS: PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT

GREATNESS. Psalm cl. 1, 2.



236. Having thus in a few words given you a taste of the sorrow

and affliction that my soul went under, by the guilt and terror



that this my wicked thought did lay me under; and having given you

also a touch of my deliverance therefrom, and of the sweet and



blessed comfort that I met with afterwards, which comfort dwelt

about a twelvemonth with my heart, to my unspeakableadmiration: I



will now (God willing), before I proceed any farther, give you in a

word or two, what, as I conceive, was the cause of this temptation;



and also after that, what advantage, at the last, it became unto my

soul.



237. For the causes, I conceived they were principally two: of

which two also I was deeply convinced all the time this trouble lay



upon me. The first was, for that I did not, when I was delivered

from the temptation that went before, still pray to God to to keep



me from the temptations that were to come; for though, as I can say

in truth, my soul was much in prayer before this trial seized me,



yet then I prayed only, or at the most principally, for the removal

of present troubles, and for fresh discoveries of His love in



Christ, which I saw afterwards was not enough to do; I also should

have prayed that the great God would keep me from the evil that was



to come.

238. Of this I was made deeply sensible by the prayer of holy



DAVID, who when he was under present mercy, yet prayed that God

would hold him back from sin and temptation to come; THEN, saith



he, SHALL I BE UPRIGHT, AND I SHALL BE INNOCENT FROM THE GREAT

TRANSGRESSION. Psalm xix. 13. By this very word was I galled and



condemned quite through this long temptation.

239. That was also another word that did much condemn me for my



folly, in the neglect of this duty. Heb. iv. 16: LET US THEREFORE

COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY, AND



FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED. This I had not done, and

therefore was thus suffered to sin and fall, according to what is



written, PRAY THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION. And truly this

very thing is to this day of such weight and awe upon me, that I



dare not, when I come before the Lord, go of my knees, until I

intreat Him for help and mercy against the temptations that are to



come; and I do beseech thee, reader, that thou learn to beware of

my negligence, by the afflictions, that for this thing I did for



days, and months, and years, with sorrow undergo.

240. Another cause of this temptation was, that I had tempted God;



and on this manner did I do it: Upon a time my wife was great with

child, and before her full time was come, her pangs, as of a woman



in travail, were fierce and strong upon her, even as if she would

have fallen immediately in labour, and been delivered of an



untimely birth: now at this very time it was, that I had been so

strongly tempted to question the being of God; wherefore, as my






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