A30567:138
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs at Cripple Gate.
London : s.n., 1668
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Secondly, Yea, in the Second place, the Children of God when they sin, their condition is far different from the sin of the wicked; they have not only a price paid, and a pardon laid up; But you will say, how in case they do not sue out their pardon? I confess if they sue it not out, they have not the comfort of it: But yet the Scripture tells us, they have an Advocate with the Faith—If they through ignorance do not know their sin, how can they sue out their pardon? yet they have an advocate with the Father continually, and it's the work of Jesus Christ at the right hand of the Father, to be an Advocate to plead for believers, with the Father; when ever they sin against the Father, there stands Christ their Advocate pleading, he watches if there come in any accusations against them; if the Law, or the Devil, or conscience shall send up an accusation, Christ stands as an Advocate to plead their cause: you know I suppose what an Advocate in Law doth mean; he stands to plead the cause of his Client; & whatsoever comes in against him, he is made acquainted withal, that he may ⟨p. 92⟩stand to plead: This is the case of the Children of God; notwithstanding their sin, they have an Advocate with the Father: In 1 John 2. 1. My little Children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not; ye ought not to sin, take heed of sinning; But if ye do, you have an advoc te with he Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:—These things that I am speaking, I confess may prove dangerous to wicked carnal hearts, that are ready to turn the Grace of God into wantonness; but by that they may know, what I say belongs not to them, that their spots are not the spots of Gods Children: Those that shall hear of this, and be hardened, or emboldened in sin the more, there need no other Argument to prove that their spots a•• n•ne •f the spots of Gods Children, than that: And therefore that what I say doth not at all belong to such: but how ever, it doth belong to many of the Children of God, and therefore they must have their portion, though such as it belongs not to will be •eady to snatch at it: And that's the second thing, in the different way of Gods dealing with his Children when they sin, and with the ungodly: Thou sinnest as others do: Thy sin for the Act may be the same; but when thou hast sinned, who stands before the Father to plead thy cause? what hath Christ to do with thee?