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

For Christ, in pleading thus, appeals to the Law it self. If he has not done it Justice. Saying, most mighty Law, what Command of thine have I not fulfilled? what Demand of thine have I not fully answered? where is that jot, or tittle of the Law that is able to object against my Doings, for want of Satisfaction? Here the Law is mute, it speaketh not one Word, by way of the least Complaint, but rather testifies of this Righteousness that it is good and holy, Rom. 3.22, 23 Rom. 5.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Now then, since Christ did this as a public Person, it follows, that others must be justified thereby. For that was the end, and Reason of Christ's taking upon him to do the Righteousness of the Law. Nor can the Law object against the Equity of this Dispensation of Heaven. For ⟨p. 131⟩why might not that God who gave the Law his Being and his Sanction, dispose as he pleases, of the Righteousness which it commendeth? Besides, if Men be made righteous, they are so, and if by a Righteousness which the Law commendeth, how can Fault be found with them by the Law? Nay, It is witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets, who consent, that it should be unto all and upon all them that believe, for their Justification, Rom. 3.20, 21.

For Christ, in pleading thus, appeals to the Law it self. If he has not done it Justice. Saying, most mighty Law, what Command of thine have I not fulfilled? what Demand of thine have I not fully answered? where is that jot, or tittle of the Law that is able to object against my Doings, for want of Satisfaction? Here the Law is mute, it speaketh not one Word, by way of the least Complaint, but rather testifies of this Righteousness that it is good and holy, Rom. 3.22, 23 Rom. 5.15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Now then, since Christ did this as a publick Person, it follows, that others must be justified thereby. For that was the end, and Reason of Christ's taking upon him to do the Righteousness of the Law. Nor can the Law object against the Equity of this Dispensation of Heaven. For