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

First Priv. 1. Thy Advocate pleads to a Price paid, to a Propitiation made; and this is a great Advantage. Yea he pleads to a Satisfaction made for all Wrongs done, or •o be done, by his Elect: For by one Offering he hath perfected for-ever them that are sanctified, Heb. 10.14. ⟨p. 96⟩ver. 10. chap. 9.26. By one Offering: That is, by the Offering of himself; by one Offering once offered, once offered in the end of the World. This, I say, thine Advocate pleads. When Satan brings in fresh Accusations, for more Transgressions against the Law of God, he forceth not Christ to shift his first Plea, I say, he puts him not to his Shifts at all. For the Price, once paid, hath in it sufficient Value (would God impute it to that end) to take away the Sin of the whole World. There is a Man that hath Brethren, he is rich, and they are poor, (and this is the Case 'twixt Christ and us) and the rich Brother, goeth to his Father, and saith, thou art related to my Brethren with me; and out of thy Store, I pray thee, let them have sufficient, and, for thy Satisfaction, I will put into thy Hand the whole of what I have, which perhaps is worth an hundred thousand Pounds by the Year; and this other Sum, I also give, that they be not disinherited: Now will not this last his poor Brethren to spend upon a good while? But Christ's Worth can never be drawn dry.

Now, set the Case again, that some ill conditioned Man should take Notice, that these poor Men live all upon the spend, (and Saints do so) and should come to the good Man's House, and complain to him of the spending ⟨p. 97⟩of his Sons, and that while their elder Brother stands by: What do you think the elder Brother would reply, if he was as good-natured as Christ? Why he would say, I have yet with my Father in store for my Brethren: Wherefore then seekest thou to stop his hand? As he is just, he •ust give them for their Conveniency; yea, and as or their Extravagances, I have satisfied for them so well, that, however he afflicteth them, he will not disinherit them. I hope you will read and hear this, not like them that say, let us do evil that Good may come, but like those, whom the Love of Christ constrains to be better: however, this is the Children's Bread, that which they have need of and without which they cannot live; and they must have it tho Satan should put Pins into it, therewith to choke the Dogs.