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A30121 The advocateship of Jesus Christ clearly explained, and largely improved, for the benefit of all believers by John Bunyan ... Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1688 (1688) Wing B5483; ESTC R32593 109,364 242

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Thus If any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous But Fifthly As Christ as Advocate pleadeth for us against Satan his Father's Interest in us and his own and pleadeth also what Right he has to dispose of the Kingdom of Heaven So he pleadeth against this Enemy that Malice and Enmity that is in him and upon which chiefly his Charge against us is grounded to the Confusion of his Face This is evident from the title that our Advocate bestows upon him while he pleads for us against him The Lord rebuke thee O Satan O Enemy saith he For Satan is an Enemy and this Name given him signifies so much And Lawyers in their Pleas can make a great Matter of such a Circumstance as this Saying My Lord we can prove that what is now pleaded against the Prisoner at the Bar is of meer Malice and Ha●red that has also of a long time lain burning and raging in his Enemy'● Breast against him This I say will greatly weaken the Plea and Accusation of an Enemy But says Jesus Christ Father here is a Plea brought in against my Joshua that cloaths him with filthy Garments But it is brought in against him by an Enemy by an Enemy in the Supe●lative or highest Degree One that hates Goodness worse than he and that loveth Wickedness more than the Man against whom at this time he has brought such an heinous Charge Then leaving with the father the Value of his Blood for the Accused he turneth him to the Accuser and pleads against him as an Enemy O Satan Thou that accusest my Spouse my Love my Members art Satan an Enemy But it will be Objected That the things charged are true Grant it Yet what Law takes Notice of the Plea of one who doth professedly act as an Enemy because 't is not done of Love to Truth and Justice and Righteousness nor intended for the Honour of the King nor for the good of the Prosecuted but to gratifie Malice and Rage and meerly to kill and destroy There is therefore a great deal of Force and Strength in an Advocate ●s pleading of such a Circumstances against an Accuser Specially when the Crimes now charged are those and only those for which the Law in the due execution of it has been satisfied before wherefore now a Lawyer has double and treble ground of Matter to plead for his Client against his Enemy And this Advantage against him has Jesus Christ. Besides 't is well known that Satan as to us is the original Cause of those very Crimes for which he accuses us at the Bar of God's Tribunal Not to say any thing of how he cometh to us sollicites us tempts us flatters us and always in a manner lies at us to do those wicked things for which he so hotly pursues us to the Bar of the Judgment of God. For tho 't is not meet for us thus to plead to wit laying that Fault upon Satan but rather upon our selves yet our Advocate will do it and make work of it too before God. Simon Simon Satan has desired to have thee that he might sift thee as Wheat but I have pray'd for thee that thy Faith fail not Luk. 22.31.32 He maketh here mention of Satan's Desires by way of Advantage against him and doubtless so he did in his Prayer with God for Peter's Preservation And what he did here while on Earth as a Saviour in general that he doth now in Heaven as a Priest and an Advocate in special I will further suppose that which may be supposed and that which is suitable to our Purpose Suppose therefore that a Father that has a Child whom he loveth but the Child has not half that Wit that some of the Family hath and I am sure that we have less Wit than Angels and suppose also that some bad minded Neighbour by tampering with tempting of and by unwearied Sollicitations should prevail with this Child to steal something out of his Father's House or Grounds and give it unto him And this he doth on purpose to set the Father against the Child And suppose again that it comes to the Fathers Knowledge that the Child through the Allurements of such an one has done so and so against his Father Will he therefore disinherit this Child Yea suppose again that he that did tempt this Child to steal should be the first that should come to accuse this Child to its Father for so doing would the Father take Notice of the Accusation of such an one No verily we that are evil can do better than so How then should we think That the God of Heaven should do such a thing since also we have a Brother that is wise and that will and can plead the very Malice of our Enemy that doth to us all these things against him for our Advantage I say this is the Sum of this fifth Plea of Christ our Advocate against Satan O Satan says he Thou art an Enemy to my People thou pleadest not out of Love to Righteousness nor to reform But to destroy my Beloved and Inheritance The Charge wherewith thou chargest my People is thine own Joh. 8.44 not only as to a matter of Charge but the things that thou accusest them of are thine Thine in the Nature of them Also thou hast tempted allured flattered and daily laboured with them to do that for which now thou so willingly wouldest have them destroyed Yea all this hast thou done of Envy to my Father and to Godliness of Hatred to me and my People and that thou mightest destroy others besides 1 Chron. 21.1 And now what can this Accuser say Can he excuse himself Can he contradict our Advocate He cannot He knows that he is a Satan an Enemy and as an Adversary has he sown his Tares among the Wheat that it might be rooted up But he shall not have his End his Malice has prevented him and so has the Care and Grace of our Advocate The Tares therefore he shall have returned to him again but the Wheat for all this shall be gathered into God's Barn Mat. 13.25 26 27 28. Thus therefore our Advocate makes Use in his Plea against Satan of the Rage and Malice that is the Occasion of the Enemies Charge wherewith he accuseth the Children of God. Wherefore when thou readest these Words O Satan say with thy self Thus Christ our Advocate accuseth our Adversary of Malice and Envy against God and Goodness while he accuseth us of the Sins which we commit for the which we are sorry and Christ has paid a Price of Redemption And thus If any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous But Sixthly Christ when he pleads as an Advocate for his People in the Presence of God against Satan He can plead those very Weaknesses of his People for which Satan would have them damned for their Relief and Advantage Is not this a Brand plucked ●ut of the Fire This