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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.
Thus we should do, and deliver our Brother from Death, there is nothing •hat Satan more desires than to get good Men into his Sive to sift them as Wheat that if possible he may leave them nothing but bran, no Grace, but the very husk and shell of Religion: And when a Christian comes to know this, should Christ as Priest, or Advocate be hid from him, what could bear him up? But let him now remember and believe that we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and •e forthwith conceiveth Comfort. For an Advocate is to plead for me according as has been showed afore, that ⟨p. 201⟩I may be delivered from the Wrath and Accusation of my Adversary, and still be kept safe under Grace.
Thus we should do, and deliver our Brother from Death, there is nothing •hat Satan more desires than to get good Men into his Sive to sift them as Wheat that if possible he may leave them nothing but bran, no Grace, but the very husk and shell of Religion: And when a Christian comes to know this, should Christ as Priest, or Advocate be hid from him, what could bear him up? But let him now remember and believe that we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and •e forthwith conceiveth Comfort. For an Advocate is to plead for me according as has been shewed afore, that ⟨p. 201⟩I may be delivered from the Wrath and Accusation of my Adversary, and still be kept safe under Grace.
Further, by telling of my Brother that he hath an Advocate: I put things into his Mind that he has not known, or do bring them to Remembrance which he has forgot: To wit, that tho he hath sinned he shall be saved in a way of Justice. For an Advocate is to plead Justice and Law, and Christ is to plead these for a Saint that has sinned: Yea so to plead them that he may be saved: This being so, he is made to perceive that by Law he must have his Sins forgiven him: That by Justice he must be justified. For Christ as an Advocate pleadeth for Justice, Justice to himself, and this Saint is of himself, a Member of his Body, of his Flesh and of his Bones.