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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.
You must know, That when Christ pleads with God, he pleads with a just and righteous God, and therefore he must plead Law and nothing but Law: And this he pleaded in both these Pleas. First, in confessing of the Sin, he justified the Sentence of the Law, in pronouncing of it evil, and then in his laying of himself, his whole self, before God, for that Sin he vindicated the Sanction, and Perfection of the Law. Thus therefore he magnifies the Law and makes it Honourable, and yet brings off the Client, safe and sound in the view of all the Angels of God.
You must know, That when Christ pleads with God, he pleads with a just and righteous God, and therefore he must plead Law and nothing but Law: And this he pleaded in both these Pleas. First, in confessing of the Sin, he justified the Sentence of the Law, in pronouncing of it evil, and then in his laying of himself, his whole self, before God, for that Sin he vindicated the Sanction, and Perfection of the Law. Thus therefore he magnifies the Law and makes it Honorable, and yet brings off the Client, safe and sound in the view of all the Angels of God.
Thirdly, the Lord Jesus, having thus taken our Sins upon himself, and presented God with all the Worthiness that is in his whole self, for them, in the next place, he calleth for Justice, or a just Verdict upon the Satisfaction ⟨p. 35⟩he hath made to God and to his […] Then Proclamation is made in open Court saying take away the filthy Garments from him, from him that hath offended, and clothe him with Change of Raiment, Zech. 3.
Thirdly, the Lord Jesus, having thus taken our Sins upon himself, and presented God with all the Worthiness that is in his whole self, for them, in the next place, he calleth for Justice, or a just Verdict upon the Satisfaction ⟨p. 35⟩he hath made to God and to his Then Proclamation is made in open Court saying take away the filthy Garments from him, from him that hath offended, and cloath him with Change of Raiment,