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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, I shall show you how he manages it before him, against our Adversary.
Secondly, I shall shew you how he manages it before him, against our Adversary.
How he manages this his Office of Advocate with his Father.
First, He doth it by himself, by no other, as Deputy under him. No Angel, no Saint, no Work has place here, but Jesus, and Jesus only. This the Text implies, we have an Advocate, speaking of one, but one, one alone, without an Equal or an Inferior. We have but one, and he is Jesus Christ.
Nor is it for Christ's Honour, nor for the Honour of the Law or of the Justice of God, that any but Jesus Christ should be an Advocate for a sinning Saint. Besides, to assert the contrary, what doth it but lessen Sin, and make the Advocateship of Jesus Christ superfluous? It would lessen Sin, should it be removed by a Saint or Angel: It would make the Advocateship of Jesus Christ superfluous, ⟨p. 29⟩yea, needless should it be possible that Sin could be removed from us by either Saint or Angel.