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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.
1. They are his Spouse, and he hath made them so. They are his Love, his Dove, his Darling, and he accounts them so. Now should a wretch attempt in open Court to take a Man's Wife away from him, how would this cause the Man to plead! Yea, and what Judge, that is just, and knows that the Man has this Interest in the Woman pleaded for, would yield to, or give a Verdict for the Wretch against the Man, whose Wife the Woman is? Thus Christ in pleading Interest, in pleading [thou gavest them me] pleads by a strong Argument; an Argument that the Enemy cannot invalidate. True, were Christ to plead this before a Saul, 1 Sam. 25.44. or before Sampson's Wives Father, the Philistine, Judg. 14.20. perhaps such treacherous Judges would give it against all Right. But I have told you the Court in which Christ pleads, is the Highest and the Justest, and that from which there can be no Appeal. Wherefore Christ his Cause; and so, the Cause of the Children of God, must be tried before, their Father, from whose Face to be sure, just Judgment shall proceed. But,
1. They are his Spouse, and he hath made them so. They are his Love, his Dove, his Darling, and he accounts them so. Now should a wretch attempt in open Court to take a Man's Wife away from him, how would this cause the Man to plead! Yea, and what Judge, that is just, and knows that the Man has this Interest in the Woman pleaded for, would yield to, or give a Verdict for the Wretch against the Man, whose Wife the Woman is? Thus Christ in pleading Interest, in pleading [thou gavest them me] pleads by a strong Argument; an Argument that the Enemy cannot invalidate. True, were Christ to plead this before a Saul, 1 Sam. 25.44. or before Sampson's Wives Father, the Philistian, Judg. 14.20. perhaps such treacherous Judges would give it against all Right. But I have told you the Court in which Christ pleads, is the Highest and the Justest, and that from which there can be no Appeal. Wherefore Christ his Cause; and so, the Cause of the Children of God, must be tryed before, their Father, from whose Face to be sure, just Judgment shall proceed. But,