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

That Satan will quarrel with God, I have showed you, and that he will also dispute against his Works with the holy Angels, is more than intimated by the Apostle Jude, Jude 9. And why not quarrel with, and accuse the Justice of God as unrighteous for consenting to the Salvation of Sinners? Since his best Qualifications are most profound and prodigious Attempts, to dethrone the Lord God of his Power and Glory.

That Satan will quarrel with God, I have shewed you, and that he will also dispute against his Works with the holy Angels, is more than intimated by the Apostle Jude, Jude 9. And why not quarrel with, and accuse the Justice of God as unrighteous for consenting to the Salvation of Sinners? Since his best Qualifications are most profound and prodigious Attempts, to dethrone the Lord God of his Power and Glory.

Nay all this is evident since we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And again, I say, 'tis evident that one part of his Work, as an Advocate, is to vindicate the Justice of God, while he pleadeth for our Salvation; because he pleadeth a Propitiation. For a Propitiation respecteth God, as well as us, the appeasing of his Wrath and the reconciling of his Justice to us, as well as the redeeming of us from Death and Hell. Yea it therefore doth the one, because it doth the other. Now if Christ, as an Advocate, pleadeth a Propitiation with God, for whose Conviction doth he plead it? Not for God's, for he has ordained it, allows it, and gloriously acquiesces therein, because he knoweth the whole Virtue thereof. It is therefore for the Conviction of the fallen Angels, and for the confounding of all those Cavils that can be invented and objected against our Salvation, by those most subtle, and envious ones. But,

Nay all this is evident since we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And again, I say, 'tis evident that one part of his Work, as an Advocate, is to vindicate the Justice of God, while he pleadeth for our Salvation; because he pleadeth a Propitiation. For a Propitiation respecteth God, as well as us, the appeasing of his Wrath and the reconciling of his Justice to us, as well as the redeeming of us from Death and Hell. Yea it therefore doth the one, because it doth the other. Now if Christ, as an Advocate, pleadeth a Propitiation with God, for whose Conviction doth he plead it? Not for God's, for he has ordained it, allows it, and gloriously acquiesces therein, because he knoweth the whole Virtue thereof. It is therefore for the Conviction of the fallen Angels, and for the confounding of all those Cavils that can be invented and objected against our Salvation, by those most subtil, and envious ones. But,