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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.
Secondly, Study this Office in the Nature of it. For therein lies the Excellency of any thing, even in the Nature of it. Wrong thoughts of this or that, abuses it, and takes its natural Glory from it, take heed therefore of misapprehending, while thou art seeking to apprehend Christ as thy Advocate. Men judge of Christ's Offices, while they are at too great a distance from them, but Let them come near says God, then let them speak, Isa. 41.1. or as Elihu said to his Friends (when he had seen them judge amiss,) Let us choose to us Judgment, let us know among our selves what is good, Job 34.4. So say I, study to know, rightly to know the Advocate-Office of Jesus Christ. It is one of the easiest things in the World to miss of the Nature, while we speak of the Name and Offices of Jesus Christ. Wherefore look to it that thou study the Nature of the Office of his Advocateship: Of his Avocateship for, for so you ought to consider it, there is an Advocate for, not against the Children of God, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Secondly, Study this Office in the Nature of it. For therein lies the Excellency of any thing, even in the Nature of it. Wrong thoughts of this or that, abuses it, and takes its natural Glory from it, take heed therefore of misapprehending, while thou art seeking to apprehend Christ as thy Advocate. Men judge of Christ's Offices, while they are at too great a distance from them, but Let them come near says God, then let them speak, Isa. 41.1. or as Elihu said to his Friends (when he had seen them judge amiss,) Let us chuse to us Judgment, let us know among our selves what is good, Job 34.4. So say I, study to know, rightly to know the Advocate-Office of Jesus Christ. It is one of the easiest things in the World to miss of the Nature, while we speak of the Name and Offices of Jesus Christ. Wherefore look to it that thou study the Nature of the Office of his Advocateship: Of his Avocateship for, for so you ought to consider it, there is an Advocate for, not against the Children of God, Jesus Christ the righteous.