CONTENTS

Biographical Introduction 9

1 The Intercession of Christ Explained 17 What Is His Intercession? 18 What Does He Ask For? 19 ‘Bring Them Home’ 19 ‘Cleanse Them and Keep Them’ 19 ‘Give Them More Grace’ 20 ‘Preserve Them’ 21 What Does Christ’s Intercession Infer? 23 Saints Sin 23 We Need a Mediator 24 We Need a Blameless Intercessor 25 Christ Answers All Accusations Against Us 26 Believers Should not Rest at the Cross for Comfort 27 2 Benefi ts of Christ’s Intercession 29 What Does the Apostle Mean by ‘Save’? 29 Justifi cation 30 Preservation 31 What Does it Mean to Save to the Uttermost? 36 Persons Far from Christ 36 Things that Make Coming Hard 36 Why ‘Able’? 40 All-suffi cient Merit 40 Infi nite Power 41

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3 Some Important Inferences 43 Justifi cation Will Stand with Imperfection 43 The Justifi ed Are Still Sinners 44 Imperfect in Graces 45 Imperfect in Duties 48 Satan Does not Give Up 49 He Does not Know Who Are Elect 50 He Wants to Defi le and Affl ict the Church 50 The Danger of Self-suffi ciency 50 God Hates the Sin of His People 51 Christ Begins and Completes Our Salvation 52 All Glory to Jesus 54 Saints Need Christ to the End 55

4 The Persons Interested in Christ’s Intercession 57 Not Those Who Come Their Own Way 57 To God, but not to Christ 57 To Christ, but not to God by Him 58 Those Who Come as God Intends 60 Newly Awakened 62 The Returning Backslider 76 The Upright Believer 80 5 Conclusions Touching These Persons 85 He Is no Fool that Comes to God by Christ 85 He Believes There Is a World to Come 88 Faith Is Strong and Forcible 88 Those Who Turn from Christ Have no Faith 90 The World to Come is Better 91 Most Men Are Mad 93 How God Determines Our End 95

6 Unfailing Effi cacy of Christ’s Intercession 99 An Unshakeable Covenant 100

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Confi rmed by an Oath 103 Grounded in the Life of Christ 104 A Life Laid Down and Taken Again 105 Our Intercessor Has the Final Word 107 Grounded Upon His Merits 109

7 Lessons Taught By This Part 113 Our Souls Are in a Deplorable Condition 113 Satan Does not Want to Lose Us 114 Christ’s Love Never Wearies 115 Christ Will Save Many 116 Honour Christ by Believing 117 Worthy Is the Lamb 118

8 The Use: Concluding Exhortations 119 Study the Priestly Offi ce of Christ 119 Apply This Truth to Yourself and Others 121

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