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A30214 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. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1688 (1688) Wing B5608; ESTC R36333 108,411 316

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rejoice and be glad for that one of themselves was made the Lord Chief by the King and the great Governour of the Land for the good of his Kindred True when a Man thinks of Christ as severed from him he sees but little to his Comfort in Christ's Exaltation but when he looks upon Christ and can say my Saviour my Priest or the chief Bishop of my Soul then he will see much in his being thus promoted to Honour Consider then of the Glories to which God has exalted our Saviour in that he hath made him so high 'T is comely also when thou speakest of him that thou name his Name with some additional Title thereby to call thy Mind to the Remembrance and so to the greater Reverence of the Person of thy Jesus As our Lord Jesus our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Apostle and High Priest of our Profession Christ Jesus 2 Pet. 2.20 Heb. 3.1 c. Men write themselves by their Titles As John Earl of such a Place Anthony Earl of such a Place and Thomas Lord c. 'T is common also to call Men in great Places by their Titles rather than by their Names yea it also pleases such great ones well As my Lord High Chancellor of England my Lord privy-Privy-Seal my Lord high Admiral c. And thus should Christians make mention of Jesus Christ our Lord adding to his Name some of his Titles of Honour specially since all Places of Trust and Titles of Honour conferred on him are of special Favour to us I did use to be much taken with one Sect of Christians for that it was usually their way when they made mention of the Name of Jesus to call him The blessed King of Glory Christians should do thus 't would do them good For why doth the Holy Ghost think you give him all these Titles but that we should call him by them and so make mention of him one to another For the very calling of him by this or that Title or Name belonging to this or that Office of his giveth us Occasion not only to think of him as exercising that Office but to enquire by the Word by Meditation and one of another what there is in that Office and what by his exercising of that the Lord Jesus profiteth his Church How will Men stand for that Honour that by Superiors is given to them expecting and using all things to wit Actions and Carriages so as that thereby their Grandure may be maintained And saith Christ ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am Joh. 13.13 Christ Jesus our Lord would have us exercise our selves in the Knowledge of his glorious Offices and Relative Titles because of the Advantage that we get by the Knowledge of them and the Reverence of and Love to him that they beget in our Hearts The Disciple saith the Text whom Jesus loved said unto Peter It is the Lord. And when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord He girt his Fishers Coat unto him for he was naked and did cast himself into the Sea And the other Disciples came in a little Ship to wit to Shore to wait upon their Lord Chap. 21. The very naming of him under the Title of Lord bowed their Hearts forthwith to come with Joint-readiness to wait upon him Let this also learn us to distinguish Christs Offices and Titles not to confound them For he exerciseth those Offices and beareth those Titles for great Reason and to our Commodity Every Circumstance relating both to Christ's Humiliation and Exaltation ought to be duly weighed by us because of that Mystery of God and of Man's Redemption that is wrapt up therein For as there was not a pin nor a loop nor a tack in the Tabernacle but had in it an use of Instruction to the Children of Israel so there is not any part whether more near or more remote to Christ's Suffering and Exaltation but is could we get into it full of spiritual Advantage to us To instance the Matter that came out of Christ's Side a thing little taken Notice of either by Preachers or Hearers and yet John makes it one of the Witnesses of the Truth of our Redemption and a Confirmation of the Certainty of that Record that God to the World hath given of the Sufficiency that is in his Son to save Joh. 19.34 1 Joh. 5.5 6 7 8 9. Gal. 3.17 Rom. 4.9 10 11 12. When I have considered that the very timing of Scripture Expressions and the Season of administring of Ordinances has been argumentative to the promoting of the Faith and way of Justification by Christ it has made me think that both my self and the most of the People of God look over the Scriptures too slightly and take too little Notice of that or of those many Honours that God for our good has conferr'd upon Christ. Shall he be called a King a Priest a Prophet a Sacrifice an Altar a Captain a Head a Husband a Father a Fountain a Door a Rock a Lyon a Saviour c. and shall we not consider these things And shall God to all these add moreover that he is an Advocate and shall we take no Notice thereof or jumble things so together that we lose some of his Titles and Offices or so be concerned with one as not to think we have need of the Benefit of the rest Let 's be ashamed thus to do or think and let 's give to him that is thus exalted the Glory due unto his Name Vse 2. Secondly As we should consider the Titles and Offices of Christ in general So we should consider this of his being an Advocate in particular for this is one of the Reasons which induced the Apostle to present him here under that very Notion to us namely that we should have Faith about it and consider of it to our Comfort If any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous An Advocate An Advocate as I said is one that hath Power to plead for another in this or that or any Court of Judicature Be much therefore in the Meditation of Christ as executing of this his Office for thee For many Advantages will come to thee thereby As 1. This will give thee to see that thou art not forsaken when thou hast sinned and this has not in it a little Relief only but yieldeth Consolation in time of need There is nothing that we are more prone unto than to think we are forsaken when we have sinned when for this very thing to wit to keep us from thinking so is the Lord Jesus become our Advocate If any Man sin we have an Advocate Christian thou that hast sinned and that with the Guilt of thy Sin art driven to the brink of Hell ● bring thee news from God thou shalt not die but live for thou hast an Advocate with the Father Let this therefore be considered by thee because it yieldeth this Fruit. 2. The Study of