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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.
Besides, 'tis well known that Satan as to us, is the original Cause of those very Crimes for which he accuses us at the Bar of God's Tribunal. Not to say any thing of how he cometh to us, solicits us, tempts us, flatters us, and always (in a manner) lies at us to do those wicked things, for which he so hotly pursues us to the Bar of the Judgment of God. For tho 'tis not meet for us thus to plead, to wit, laying that Fault upon Satan but rather upon our selves; yet our Advocate will do it, and make work of it too before God. Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to have thee, that he might sift thee as Wheat, but I have prayed for thee that thy Faith fail not, Luk. 22.31.32. He maketh here mention of Satan's Desires, by way of Advantage against him; and doubtless so he did in his Prayer with God for Peter's Preservation. And what he did here, while on Earth, as a Saviour in general, that he doth now in Heaven as a Priest, and an Advocate in special.
Besides, 'tis well known that Satan as to us, is the original Cause of those very Crimes for which he accuses us at the Bar of God's Tribunal. Not to say any thing of how he cometh to us, sollicites us, tempts us, flatters us, and always (in a manner) lies at us to do those wicked things, for which he so hotly pursues us to the Bar of the Judgment of God. For tho 'tis not meet for us thus to plead, to wit, laying that Fault upon Satan but rather upon our selves; yet our Advocate will do it, and make work of it too before God. Simon, Simon, Satan has desired to have thee, that he might sift thee as Wheat, but I have pray'd for thee that thy Faith fail not, Luk. 22.31.32. He maketh here mention of Satan's Desires, by way of Advantage against him; and doubtless so he did in his Prayer with God for Peter's Preservation. And what he did here, while on Earth, as a Saviour in general, that he doth now in Heaven as a Priest, and an Advocate in special.
I will further suppose that which may be supposed, and that which is suitable to our Purpose. Suppose therefore that a Father that has a Child whom he loveth, but the Child has not half that Wit that some of the Family hath; (and I am sure that we have