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

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,

Secondly, There is Matter of Law to be objected and that both against God and us. At least there seems to be so, because of the Sanction that God has put upon the Law, and also, because we have sinned against it.