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Christ the fountain of life: or, Sundry choice sermons on part of the fifth chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.Christ the fountaine of life: or, Sundry choyce sermons on part of the fift chapter of the first Epistle of St. John. Preached by that learned judicious divine, and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. John Cotton B.D. now preacher at Boston in New-England. Published according to Order.
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1651
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, another principle in this Epistle tending to build up this certainty, and confidence, is not only our adoption, but likewise Christs advocation, 1 Jo. 2.1, 2. If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Secondly, another principle in this Epistle tending to build up this certainty, and confidence, is not only our adoption, but likewise Christs advocation, 1 Io. 2.1, 2. If any man sinne, we have an Advocate with the Father, Iesus Christ the righteous.
1What is it to be an Advocate? To be an Advocate, is to plead on our behalves with the Father, for the granting and answering of our Petitions, for the pardoning and healing of all our transgressions, and the performing to us, and giving of us all the good things we stand in need of, whether we ask them, or ask them not; but especially, there is no Petition we put up, but Christ takes it at our hands, and puts it up in such form to his heavenly Father, as that by ⟨p. 229⟩and through him it is accepted; As a man retains an Advocate in a Court, he brings him his cause rudely drawn, so as it would be rejected in the Court, but his Advocate puts it into such a form, as is agreeable to the Law, and suitable to the order of the Court, so as it finds free acceptance: So we put up our Petitions rudely, and many times far short of that frame which God especially looks for from his servants hands, but Christ takes them at our hands, and puts them into form, and so prefers them to his heavenly Father, and so as from thence we have good occasion, and good ground of confidence and certainty, that whatever we put up in any measure according to Gods will, being presented to our Advocate, to our heavenly Father, shall be accepted.