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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.
Talk then what thou wilt, and profess never so largely, Christ is no Advocate of thine, nor shalt thou, thou so continuing, be ever the better for any of those Pleas that Christ at Gods Bar, puts in against the Devil, for his People.
Talk then what thou wilt, and profess never so largely, Christ is no Advocate of thine, nor shalt thou, thou so continuing, be ever the better for any of those Pleas that Christ at God•s Bar, puts in against the Devil, for his People.
Christians, Christ Jesus is not unwilling to lay out himself for you in Heaven, nor to be an Advocate for you in the Presence of his Father: But yet he is unwilling that you should render him evil for good; I say that you should do so by your remissness and carelessness. For want of such a thinking of things, as may affect you Hearts therewith. 'Twould be more comely in you, would please him better, would better agree with your Profession, and also better would prove you gracious, to be sound in the Power and Nature of these Conclusions. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Rom. 6.2. Col. 3.1, 3, 5, 6, If ye be risen with Christ seek those things that are above where Christ sitteth at the right Hand of God. For ye are dead and your ⟨p. 198⟩Life is hid with Christ in God. Mortify therefore your Members which are upon the Earth; Fornication, Uncleanness, inordinate Affection, Evil Concupiscence, and Covetousness which is Idolatry, for which things sake the Wrath of God cometh upon the Children of Disobedience.
Christians, Christ Jesus is not unwilling to lay out himself for you in Heaven, nor to be an Advocate for you in the Presence of his Father: But yet he is unwilling that you should render him evil for good; I say that you should do so by your remissness and carelesness. For want of such a thinking of things, as may affect you Hearts therewith. 'Twould be more comely in you, would please him better, would better agree with your Profession, and also better would prove you gracious, to be sound in the Power and Nature of these Conclusions. How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein?