A30121:205
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.
This is true in Nature, and so it is in Grace. Wherefore, notwithstanding what was said under the first Head, it doth not follow, that if I be a Child I must certainly know it, and also be able to call God Father. Let the first then serve to poise and balance the Confident ones, and let this be for the Relief of those more feeble. For they that are Children, whether they know it or no, have Jesus Christ for their Advocate. For Christ is assigned to be our Advocate by the Judge, by the King, by our God and Father, although we have not known it. True, at present, there can come from hence, to them that are thus concerned in the Advocateship of Christ, but little Comfort, but yet it yields them great Security. They have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. God knows this, the Devil feels this, and the Children shall have the Comfort of it afterwards. I say the time is coming when they shall know, that even then, when they knew it not, they had an Advocate with the Father: An Advocate ⟨p. 72⟩[…] ⟨p. 73⟩[…] ⟨p. 74⟩who was neither loth nor afraid, nor ashamed to plead for their Defence, against their proudest Foe.
This is true in Nature, and so it is in Grace. Wherefore, notwithstanding what was said under the first Head, it doth not follow, that if I be a Child I must certainly know it, and also be able to call God Father. Let the first then serve to poise and balance the Confident ones, and let this be for the Relief of those more feeble. For they that are Children, whether they know it or no, have Jesus Christ for their Advocate. For Christ is assigned to be our Advocate by the Judge, by the King, by our God and Father, altho we have not known it. True, at present, there can come from hence, to them that are thus concerned in the Advocateship of Christ, but little Comfort, but yet it yields them great Se•urity. They have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. God knows this, the Devil feels this, and the Children shall have the Comfort of it afterwards. I say the time is coming when they shall know, that even then, when they knew it not, they had an Advocate with the Father: An Advocate ⟨p. 72⟩