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

Priv. 4. Fourthly, Since that which goeth before is true, it follows, That he that entereth his Plea against the Children must needs be overthrown. For always, before just Judges 'tis the Right that taketh place. Judge the right, O Lord. said David, or let my Sentence come forth from thee, according to the Law of Grace. And he that knows what ⟨p. 108⟩strong Ground, or bottom our Advocate has for his Pleadings, and how Satan's Accusations are without sound Foundation, will not be afraid, he speaking in Christ, to say, I appeal to God Almighty, since Christ is my Advocate by the new Law, whether I ought to be condemned to Death and Hell for what Satan pleads against me by the Old. Satan urgeth that we have sinned, but Christ pleads to his propitiatory Sacrifice, and so Satan is over-thrown. Satan pleads the Law of Works, but Christ pleads the Law of Grace: Further, Satan pleads, the Justice and Holiness of God against us: & there, the Accuser is overthrown again. And to them Christ appeals, and his Appeal is good, since the Law testifies to thes sufficiency of the Satisfaction that Christ has made thereto by his Obedience, Rom. 3.22, 23. & also, since by another Covenant God himself has given us to Jesus Christ, & so delivered us from the Old. Wherefore you read nothing as an effect of Satan's pleading against us, but that his Mouth is stopped; as appears by the 3. of Zechariah, and that he is cast; yea cast down, as you have it in the 12. of the Revelations.

Priv. 4. Fourthly, Since that which goeth before is true, it follows, That he that entereth his Plea against the Children must needs be overthrown. For always, before just Judges 'tis the Right that taketh place. Judge the right, O Lord. said David, or let my Sentence come forth from thee, according to the Law of Grace. And he that knows what ⟨p. 108⟩strong Ground, or bottom our Advocate has for his Pleadings, and how Satan's Accusations are without sound Foundation, will not be afraid, he speaking in Christ, to say, I appeal to God Almighty, since Christ is my Advocate by the new Law, whether I ought to be condemned to Death and Hell for what Satan pleads against me by the Old. Satan urgeth that we have sinned, but Christ pleads to his propitiatory Sacrifice, and so Satan is over-thrown. Satan pleads the Law of Works, but Christ pleads the Law of Grace: Further, Satan pleads, the Justice and Holiness of God against us: & there, the Accuser is overthrown again. And to them Christ appeals, and his Appeal is good, since the Law testifies to thes sufficiency of the Satisfaction that Christ has made thereto by his Obedience,