Use 8. Eighthly, But what is all this to you that are •ot concerned in this Privilege? The Children indeed have the Advantage of an Advocate, but what is this to them that have none to plead their Cause? Jer. 30.12, 13. They are as we say left to the wide World, or to be ground to Powder between the Justice of God and the Sins which they have committed. This is the Man that none but the Devil seeks after, that is pursued by the Law, and Sin, and Death, and has none to plead his Cause. 'Tis sad to consider the plight that such an one is in. His Accuser is appointed, yea ordered to bring in a Charge against him [let Satan stand at his right Hand] Ps. 109 6, 7. in the Place where Accusers stand, And when he shall be judged let him be condemned, let there be none to plead for his Deliverance. If he cries or offereth to cry out for Mercy or Forgiveness [let his Prayer become Sin:] This is the Portion of a wicked Man. Terrors take hold ⟨p. 203⟩on him as Waters, a Tempest stealeth him away in the Night, the East Wind carrieth him away, and he departeth, and as a Storm hurleth him out of his Place. For God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his Hand. Men shall clap their Hands at him and shall hiss him out of his Place, Job 27.20, 21, 22, 23. And what shall this Man do? Can he over-stand the Charge, the Accusation, the Sentence, and Condemnation? No, he has none to plead his Cause. I remember that somewhere I have read, as I think, concerning one, who when he was carrying upon Mens Shoulders to the Grave, cried out as he lay upon the Bier, I am accused before the just Judgment of God; and a while after, I am condemned before the just Judgment of God. Nor was this Man but strict as to the Religion that was then on Foot in the World, but all the Religion of the World amounts to no more than nothing, I mean as to eternal Salvation, if Men be denied an Advocate to plead their Cause with God. Nor can any Advocate, save Jesus Christ the righteous, avail any thing at all: Because there is none appointed, but him to that Work, and therefore not to be admitted to enter a Plea for their Client at the Bar of God.
Vse 8. Eighthly, But what is all this to you that are •ot concerned in this Privilege? The Children indeed have the Advantage of an Advocate, but what is this to them that have none to plead their Cause? Jer. 30.12, 13. They are as we say left to the wide World, or to be ground to Powder between the Justice of God and the Sins which they have committed. This is the Man that none but the Devil seeks after, that is pursued by the Law, and Sin, and Death, and has none to plead his Cause. 'Tis sad to consider the plight that such an one is in. His Accuser is appointed, yea ordered to bring in a Charge against him [let Satan stand at his right Hand] Ps. 109 6, 7. in the Place where Accusers stand, And when he shall be judged let him be condemned, let there be none to plead for his Deliverance. If he cries or offereth to cry out for Mercy or Forgiveness [let his Prayer become Sin:] This is the Portion of a wicked Man. Terrors take hold ⟨p. 203⟩on him as Waters, a Tempest stealeth him away in the Night, the East Wind carrieth him away, and he departeth, and as a Storm hurleth him out of his Place. For God shall cast upon him and not spare: he would fain flee out of his Hand. Men shall clap their Hands at him and shall hiss him out of his Place, Job 27.20, 21, 22, 23. And what shall this Man do? Can he over-stand the Charge, the Accusation, the Sentence, and Condemnation? No, he has none to plead his Cause. I remember that somewhere I have read, as I think, concerning one, who when he was carrying upon Mens Shoulders to the Grave, cried out as he lay upon the Bier, I am accused before the just Judgment of God; and a while after, I am condemned before the just Judgment of God. Nor was this Man but strict as to the Religion that was then on Foot in the World, but all the Religion of the World amounts to no more than nothing, I mean as to eternal Salvation, if Men be denyed an Advocate to plead their Cause with God. Nor can any Advocate, save Jesus Christ the righteous, avail any thing at all: Because there is none appointed, but him to that Work, and therefore not to be admitted to enter a Plea for their Client at the Bar of God.
