The advocateship of Jesus Christ clearly explained, and largely improved, for the benefit of…

I will, saith Christ; I will, saith Satan: But whose Will shall stand? 'Tis true, Christ in the Text speaks more like an Arbitrator than an Advocate: More like a Judge than one pleading at a Bar. I will have it so, I judge that so it ought to be and must. But there is also something of Plea in the Words both before his Father, and against our Enemy. And therefore he speaketh like one that can plead and determine also, yea like one that has Power so to do. But shall the Will of Heaven stoop to the Will of Hell? Or the Will of Christ to the Will of Satan? Or the Will of Righteousness to the Will of Sin? Shall Satan, who is God's Enemy, and whose Charge wherewith he chargeth us for Sin, and which is grounded not upon Love to Righteousness, but upon Malice against God's Designs of Mercy, against the Blood of Christ, and the Salvation of his People: I say, shall this Enemy and this charge prevail with God against: the well-grounded Plea of Christ, and against the Salvation of God's Elect! and so keep us out of Heaven? No, no, Christ will ⟨p. 53⟩have it otherwise. He is the great Donator, and his Eye is good. True, Satan was turned out of Heaven for that he sinned there, and we must be taken into Heaven tho we have sinned here; this is the Will of Christ and as Advocate he pleads it against the Face and Accusation of our Adversary. 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 mere 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