...confidence, and prevent our prayers. In thofe circumftances, how comfortable and enlivening is the thought, That, if any man fin, •we have an Advocate with the Father ; that Jefus our Redeemer ftands before his throne ; that he pleads our caufe ; and that Him the Father...

...that being thus received we may fo walk in him; " Theie things I write to you, that ye fin not; but if any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous," i Jchn ii. i. Well is it with the poor foul that hath many challenges for fin and guilt, and is fadly...

...body "." " The Son of Man came, to DIS C. . III. " give his life a ranfom for many "." • -.-'_< " We have an Advocate with the Father, " Jefus Chrift the Righteous ; and He is . " the propitiation for our fins; and not " for ours only, but alfo for the fins of the ** whole...

....will of God, our involuntary and unallowed imperfections will be forgiven by our merciful Creator. " If any man fin, " we have an advocate with the Father, " Jefus Chrift the righteous SV* But we! muft endeavour, fincerely and uniformly, to obey the will of God ; that muft be the prevailing...

...vou to do you good; hut I will put my fear in your heart, that ye fhull not depart from me." He fays that, " If any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrifi the righteous, who is the propitiation for our fins :" and therefore, " Tho' you fall, yi.u...

...continuation of our luflification, i John }i. i, 2. " Thefe things write I unto you, that you fin not : and if any man fin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous ; and he is the propitiation for our fins." It is the duty of juftified perfons not to fin ; but it is not...

...his blood before God himfelf, in ordtr to obtain mercy for us, and rdlore us to the Divine favour. So that, " if any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous, who is the propitiation for our fins, and not for ours only, but alfo for the fins of the whole world...

...fcripture I enforced was, " My little children, thefe things I write unto you, that ye fin not. But if any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the • righteous," I found no want want either of inward or outward ftrength. But afterwards finding my fever increafed,...

...joyful found.'' 5. God is pone up in our nature as " an advocate with the leather:" T John ii. i. " If any man fin we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous." There is a fpecial emphafis in that word, " we have an advocate ;'' the meaning is, he is conftitute...

...bar< the fin of many, and made interccdion for the tranfgreflbrs," Luke xxiii. 34. i John ii. I. " And if any man fin, we have an Advocate •with the Father, Jefus Chrifl the righteouF." 7. Is it not good-will to man upon earth, that he commands the white fUg of...