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The advocateship of Jesus Christ clearly explained, and largely improved, for the benefit of…
The advocateship of Jesus Christ clearly explained, and largely improved, for the benefit of all believers by John Bunyan ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1688
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O God, says he, thou knowest my foolishness, and my Sins, my Guiltiness is not hid from thee, Psal. 69.5. And this he must do, or else he can do nothing: If he hides the Sin or lesseneth it, he is faulty: If he leaves it still upon us, we die: He must then take our Iniquity to himself, make it his own, and so deliver us. For having thus taken the Sin upon himself, as he lawfully may, and lovingly doth, for we are Members of his Body, (so 'tis his Hand, 'tis his Foot, 'tis his Ear that hath sinned:) It followeth that we live, if he lives, and who can desire more. This then must be thoroughly considered, if ever we will have Comfort in a day of Trouble and Distress for Sin.
O God, says he, thou knowest my foolishness, and my Sins, my Guiltiness is not hid from thee, Psal. 69.5. And this he must do, or else he can do nothing: If he hides the Sin or lesseneth it, he is faulty: If he leaves it still upon us, we die: He must then take our Iniquity to himself, make it his own, and so deliver us. For having thus taken the Sin upon himself, as he lawfully may, and lovingly doth, for we are Members of his Body, (so 'tis his Hand, 'tis his Foot, 'tis his Ear that hath sinned:) It followeth that we live, if he lives, and who can desire more. This then must be thorowly considered, if ever we will have Comfort in a day of Trouble and Distress for Sin.
And thus far there is, in some kind, a harmony betwixt his being a Sacrifice, a Priest and an Advocate; as a Sacrifice our Sins were laid upon him, Isa. 53. as a Priest he beareth them, Exod. 28.38. and as an Advocate he acknowledgeth them to be his own, Psal. 69.5. Now, having acknowledged them to be his own, the Quarrel is no more 'twixt us and Satan: For the Lord Jesus has espoused our Quarrel, and made it his. All then that we, in this matter, have to do, is, to stand at the Bar, by Faith among the Angels, and see how the business goes. O Blessed God! What a Lover of Mankind art thou, and