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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.
I count not my self sufficient for this or for any other truth as it is in Jesus: But yet I say, I have told you somewhat of it, according to the proportion of Faith. And I believe that some will thank God for what I here have said about it; but it will be chiefly those whose Right and Title to the Kingdom of Heaven, and Glory, doth seem to themselves to be called in question by their Enemy, at the Bar of the judge of all.
I count not my self sufficient for this or for any other truth as it is in Jesus: But yet I say, I have told you somewhat of it, accordding to the proportion of Faith. And I believe that some will thank God for what I here have said about it; but it will be chiefly those whose Right and Title to the Kingdom of Heaven, and Glory, doth seem to themselves to be called in question by their Enemy, at the Bar of the judge of all.
These, I say, will read, and be glad to hear that they have an Advocate at Court that will stand up to plead for them, and that will yet secure to them a right to the heavenly Kingdom. Wherefore it is more particularly for those that at present, or that hereafter may be in this dreadful plight that this my Book is now made public: Because it is as I have showed, for such that Jesus Christ is Advocate with the Father,
These, I say, will read, and be glad to hear that they have an Advocate at Court that will stand up to plead for them, and that will yet secure to them a right to the heavenly Kingdom. Wherefore it is more particularly for those that at present, or that hereafter may be in this dreadful plight that this my Book is now made publick: Because it is as I have shewed, for such that Jesus Christ is Advocate with the Father,
Of the many and singular advantages, therefore that such have by this their Advocate in his Advocating for them, this Book gives some account, As where he pleads, how he pleads, what he pleads, when he pleads, with whom he pleads, for whom he pleads, and how the Enemy is put to shame and silence before their God and all the holy Angels.