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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.
Seventhly, By this Choice, Purpose, and Decree, the Elect, the concerned therein, have allotted them by God, and laid up for them in Christ, a Sufficiency of Grace, to bring them, through all Difficulties, to Glory. Yea and they; every one of them, after the first Act of Faith, the which also they shall certainly attain, (because wrapped up in the Promise for them) are to receive the earnest and first Fruits thereof into their Souls, 2 Tim. 1.9. Acts 14.22. Eph. 1.4, 5, 13, 14.
Seventhly, By this Choice, Purpose, and Decree, the Elect, the concerned therein, have allotted them by God, and laid up for them in Christ, a Sufficiency of Grace, to bring them, through all Difficulties, to Glory. Yea and they; every one of them, after the first Act of Faith, the which also they shall certainly attain, (because wrapt up in the Promise for them) are to receive the earnest and first Fruits thereof into their Souls, 2 Tim. 1.9. Acts 14.22. Eph. 1.4, 5, 13, 14.
Now, put all these things together, and then feel if there be not weight in this Plea of Christ against the Devil. He pleads God's Choice and Interest in his Saints against him, an Interest that is secured by the Wisdom of Heaven; by the Grace of Heaven; by the Power, Will, and Mercy of God in Christ. An Interest in which all the three Persons in the God-head have engaged themselves by mutual Agreement and Operation, to make good when Satan has done his All. I know there are some that object against this Doctrine, as false: But such perhaps are ignorant of some things else as well as of this. However they object against the Wisdom of God, whose truth it is, and against Christ our Advocate, whose Argument, as he is such, it is, yea, they labour, what in them lieth to wrest that Weapon out of his Hand, with which he so cudgelleth the Enemy, when, as Advocate, he pleadeth so effectually against him for the rescuing of us from the Danger of Judgement: Saying: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke thee.