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The work of Jesus Christ as an advocate clearly explained and largely improved for…
The work of Jesus Christ as an advocate clearly explained and largely improved for the benefit of all believers ... / by John Bunyan, author of The pilgrims progress.
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.
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
Courteous Reader,
OF all the Excellent Offices, which God the Father has conferred upon Jesus Christ our Lord, this of his being an Advocate with him for us, is not the least, though to the shame of Saints it may be spoken, the blessed benefits thereof have not with that diligence and fervent ⟨image 3⟩desire been enquired after as they ought.
Christ as Sacrifice, Priest, and King, with the glories in, and that flow from him, as such, has, God be thanked, in this our day, been much discovered by our Seers, and as much rejoiced in by those who have believed their words: but as he is an Advocate with the Father, an Advocate for us, I fear the excellency of that doth still too much lie hid. Though, I am verily of opinion, that the People of God in this Age, have as much need of the knowledge thereof (if not more need) than had their Brethren that are gone befo•• ••em.