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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.
Wherefore Christ, by such Pleas as these for his People, doth yet further show the Malice of Satan, (for all this Burning comes through him) yea, and by it he moveth the Heart of God to pity us, and yet to be gentle, and long suffering, and merciful to us. For Pity and Compassion are the Fruits of the yearning of God's Bowels towards us, while he considereth us as infirm and weak and subject to Slips and Stumbles, and Falls, because of Weakness.
Wherefore Christ, by such Pleas as these for his People, doth yet further shew the Malice of Satan, (for all this Burning comes through him) yea, and by it he moveth the Heart of God to pity us, and yet to be gentle, and long suffering, and merciful to us. For Pity and Compassion are the Fruits of the yearning of God's Bowels towards us, while he considereth us as infirm and weak and subject to Slips and Stumbles, and Falls, because of Weakness.
And that Christ our Advocate by thus pleading doth turn things to our Advantage, consider,
1. That God is careful that through our Weakness our Spirits do not fail before him when he chides, Isa. 57.16, 17, 18.