35 The edict of Nantes was issued April 1598; but in violation of it, Rochelle was taken from the Protestants in 1628. From that time horrid barbarities were practised upon them. In 1676, the elector of Brandenburg appealed to the French king on behalf of his Protestant subjects, of whom multitudes fled for refuge to England and Germany. In 1685, the edict of Nantes was revoked, and a frightful persecution ensued.—Ed.
36 Great allowance must be made for the times in which Bunyan lived. Baxter, and all the great divines, Sir M. Hale, and the judges, believed in witches, ghosts, and other chimeras; in fact, any one professing unbelief in these wild fancies, would have been counted among infidels and atheists.—Ed.
37 Sin ‘in the general of it,’ or sin wherever it may be found.
38 The law is a transcript of the mind of God, it is holy, just, and good—so that he that offendeth in one point is guilty of all. The law convicts and shows the sinner that God is all eye to see, and all fire to consume, every unclean thing. Thus the law gives sin its strength, and death its warrant, to arrest and execute the sinner.—Mason.
THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST AS AN ADVOCATE,
CLEARLY EXPLAINED, AND LARGELY IMPROVED,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL BELIEVERS.
1 John 2:1—“And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”
By JOHN BUNYAN, Author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress.”
London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King’s Arms, in the Poultry, 1689.