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

1. Because they differ in Name. We may as well say a Father, as such, is a Son; or, That Father, and Son is the self same Relation; as, say a Priest and an Advocate, as to Office, are but one and the same thing. They differ in Name as much as Priest and Sacrifice ⟨p. 66⟩do. A Priest is one, and a Sacrifice is another; and tho Christ is Priest, and Sacrifice too; yet as a Priest he is not a Sacrifice, nor as a Sacrifice, a Priest.

2. As they differ in Name, so they differ in the Nature of Office. A Priest is to slay a Sacrifice, an Advocate is to plead a Cause. A Priest is to offer his Sacrifice, to the end, that by the Merit thereof, he may appease: An Advocate is to plead, to plead according to Law. A Priest is to make Intercession by Virtue of his Sacrifice, an Advocate is to plead Law, because Amends is made.

3. As they differ in Name, and Nature, so they also differ as to their Extent. The Priesthood of Christ extendeth it self to the whole of God's Elect; whether called or in their Sins: But Christ as Advocate pleadeth only for the Children.