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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.
There is ground also to enquire after the Second, because an Advocate is supposed in the Text, to be of use to them that sin. If any Man sin, we have an Advocate.
1. For the First of these, to wit, what the Apostle should here mean by Sin, If any Man Sin.
I answer, since there is a difference in the Persons, there must be a difference in the Sin. That there is a difference in the Persons, is showed before; one is called a Child of God, the other is said to be of the wicked One. Their Sin differ also in their Degree at least, for no Child of God sins to that Degree as to make himself uncapable of Forgiveness: ⟨p. 5⟩For he that is born of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one, toucheth him not, Chap. 5.17, 18. Hence the Apostle says there is a sin unto Death, Mat. 12.32. which is the Sin from which he that is born of God is kept.
I answer, since there is a difference in the Persons, there must be a difference in the Sin. That there is a difference in the Persons, is shewed before; one is called a Child of God, the other is said to be of the wicked One. Their Sin differ also in their Degree at least, for no Child of God sins to that Degree as to make himself uncapable of Forgiveness: ⟨p. 5⟩For he that is born of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one, toucheth him not, Chap. 5.17, 18. Hence the Apostle says there is a sin unto Death, Mat. 12.32. which is the Sin from which he that is born of God is kept.