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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.
Wherefore as Advocate, be pleadeth against Satan when he brings in against us a Charge for Sins committed, for the regulating of Punishments both as to the Nature, Degree and Continuation of Punishment. And this is the Reason why, when we are judged, we are not condemned, but chastened, 1 Cor. 11.32. that we should not be condemned with the World. Hence David says, the Lord had not given him over to the Will of his Enemy, Psal. 27.12. And again, The Lord hath chastened me sore, but he hath not given me over unto Death, Psal. 118.18. Satan's Plea was, that the Lord would give David over to his Will, and to the Tyranny of Death. No says our Advocate, that must not be, to do so would be an Affront to the Covenant under which Grace has put them; that would be to deal with them by a ⟨p. 142⟩Covenant of Works under which they are not. There is a Rod for Children, and Stripes for those of them that transgress, this Rod is in the Hand of a Father, and must be used according to the Law of that Relation, not for the Destruction, but Correction of the Children: Not to satisfy the Rage of Satan, but to vindicate the Holiness of my Father. Not to drive them further from, but to bring them nearer to their God. But,
Wherefore as Advocate, be pleadeth against Satan when he brings in against us a Charge for Sins committed, for the regulating of Punishments both as to the Nature, Degree and Continuation of Punishment. And this is the Reason why, when we are judged, we are not condemned, but chastened, 1 Cor. 11.32. that we should not be condemned with the World. Hence David says, the Lord had not given him over to the Will of his Enemy, Psal. 27.12. And again, The Lord hath chastned me sore, but he hath not given me over unto Death, Psal. 118.18. Satan's Plea was, that the Lord would give David over to his Will, and to the Tyranny of Death. No says our Advocate, that must not be, to do so would be an Affront to the Covenant under which Grace has put them; that would be to deal with them by a