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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.
1. Is Christ Jesus the Lord mine Advocate with the Father? Then awake, my Faith, and shake thy self like a Giant: Stir up thy self and be not faint: Christ is the Advocate ⟨p. 183⟩of his People, and pleadeth the Cause of the poor and needy. And as for Sin which is one great stumble to thine actings, O my Faith, Christ has not only died for that as a Sacrifice, nor only carried his Sacrifice unto the Father into the holiest of all; but is there to manage that Offering as an Advocate, pleading the efficacy and Worth thereof, before God against the Devil for us.
1. Is Christ Jesus the Lord mine Advocate with the Father? Then awake, my Faith, and shake thy self like a Gyant: Stir up thy self and be not faint: Christ is the Advocate ⟨p. 183⟩of his People, and pleadeth the Cause of the poor and needy. And as for Sin which is one great stumble to thine actings, O my Faith, Christ has not only died for that as a Sacrifice, nor only carried his Sacrifice unto the Father into the holiest of all; but is there to manage that Offering as an Advocate, pleading the efficacy and Worth thereof, before God against the Devil for us.
Thus, I say, we should strengthen our Faith, for Faith has to do, not only with the Word, but also with the Offices of Christ. Besides, considering how many the Assaults are that are made upon our Faith, we find all little enough to support it against all the Wiles of the Devil.
Christians too little concern themselves, as I have said with the Offices of Jesus Christ, and therefore their Knowledge of him is so little, and their Faith in him so weak. We are bid to have our Conversation in Heaven, and then a Man so hath, when he is there in his Spirit by Faith observing how the Lord Jesus doth exercise his Offices there for him. Let us often by Faith go to the Bar of God, there to hear our Advocate plead our Cause, we should often have our Faith to God's Judgment-seat, because we are concerned there. There we are accused of the Devil, there we have our Crimes laid open, and there we have