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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.
Priv. 5. Fifthly, Thine Advocate has pity for thee, and great Indignation against thine Accuser: And these are two excellent things. When a Lawyer hath pity for a Man, whose Cause he pleadeth, it will engage him much; but when he has Indignation also against the Man's Accuser, this will yet engage him more. Now, Christ has both these, and that not of Humour, but by Grace, and Justice; Grace to us, and Justice to our Accuser. He came down from Heaven that he might be a Priest, and returned thither again, to be Priest and Advocate for his: And in both these Offices, he levelleth his whole Force and Power against thine Accuser. For this Cause was the Son of God manifest, that he might destroy the Works of the Devil, Joh. 3.8.
Priv. 5. Fifthly, Thine Advocate has pity for thee, and great Indignation against thine Accuser: And these are two excellent things. When a Lawyer hath pity for a Man, whose Cause he pleadeth, it will ingage him much; but when he has Indignation also against the Man's Accuser, this will yet engage him more. Now, Christ has both these, and that not of Humour, but by Grace, and Justice; Grace to us, and Justice to our Accuser. He came down from Heaven that he might be a Priest, and returned thither again, to be Priest and Advocate for his: And in both these Offices, he levelleth his whole Force and Power against thine Accuser. For this Cause was the Son of God manifest, that he might destroy the Works of the Devil, Joh. 3.8.
Cunning Men will, if they can, entertain such an one to be their Advocate, who has a particular Quarrel against their Adversary: For thus, think they, he that is such, will not only plead for me, but for himself, and to right his own Wrongs also, and, since (if it be so, and it is so here) my Concerns and my Advocate's are interwoven, I am like to fare much the better, for the Anger that is conceived in his Heart against him. And this, I say, is the Children's Case; their Advocate, counteth their Accuser his greatest Enemy, and waiteth for a time to take Vengeance, and he usually then takes the opportunity, when he has ought to do for his People against him. Hence he says, The Dy of Vengeance is in my Heart and the Year of my redeemed is come,