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

Soul. Truly, says the Soul, methinks, ••at by what you have said, I may have this •lessed Jesus to be mine Advocate; for, I ••ink verily, I have entertained him to be •ine Advocate; I have also revealed my Cause •nto him; yea committed both it and my self •nto him. And, as you say, I wait: O I •ait! And my Eyes fail with looking upward. Fain would I hear, how my Soul ••andeth in the Sight of God, and whether ••y Sins, which I have committed (Since •ight and Grace was given unto me) be, by •ine Advocate, taken out of the Hand of the ⟨p. 92⟩Devil, and by mine Advocate, removed […] far from me as the Ends of the Earth are asunder: Whether the Verdict has gone o• my side. And what a Shout there was among the Angels when they saw it went we•• with me. But alas! I have waited, and tha• a long time; and have, as you advise, ra• from Ordinance to minister, and from Minister to Ordinance, or, as you phrase it from the Post to the Carrier, and from th• Carrier to the Post-house, to see if I coul• hear ought from Heaven, how Matters wen• about my Soul there. I have also asked tho•• that pass by the way, if they saw him whom […] Soul loveth, and if they had any thing to co• municate to me, but nothing can I get […] find but Generals; as, that I have an Advoca•• there, and that he pleadeth the Cause of […] People, and that he will throughly ple their Cause, but what he has done for […] of that, as yet, I am ignorant. I doubt, my Soul shall, by him, effectually be secure that yet, a conditional Verdict will be awar dead concerning me, and that much Bitter […] be mixed with my Sweet, and that I […] drink Gall and Wormwood for my Foll For, if David and Asa, and Hezekiah, […] such good Men, were so served, for their […]