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

And in the mean time if any that are unjust should go about utterly and forever, to deprive his Brethren, he may stand up and plead for them; that in Law the Land cannot be sold forever, for that it is his as well as theirs, he being resolved not to part with his Right: O my Brethren, Christ will not part with his Right of the Inheritance unto which you are also born. Your Profuseness, and Prodigality shall not make him let go his hold that he hath for you of Heaven, nor can you according to Law sell the Land forever, since 'tis his, and he hath the principal and chief Title thereto. This also giveth him Ground to stand up to plead for you against all those that would hold the Kingdom from you forever. For let Satan say what he can against you, yet Christ can say the Land is mine: And consequently that his Brethren could not sell it.

Yes, says Satan, if the Inheritance be divided.

Yes, says Satan, if the Inheritance be devided.

O but, says Christ, The Land is undivided, no Man has his part set out, and turned over to himself. Besides my Brethren yet are under Age, and I am made their Guardian: They have not Power to sell the Land forever, the Land is mine, also my Father has made me Feoffee in tr•st for my Brethren, that they may have what is allotted them when they are all come to a perfect Man, to the ⟨p. 146⟩Measure of the Stature of the Fullness of Christ, Eph. 4.12, 13. and not before, and I will reserve it for them till then, and thus to do is the Will of my Father, the Law of the Judge, and also my unchangeable Resolution. And what can Satan say against this Plea? Can he prove that Christ has no Interest in the Saints Inheritance? Can he prove that we are at Age, or that our several Parts of the Heavenly House, is already delivered into our own Hands and is in our own Power? And if he goes about to do this is not the Law of the Land against him: Doth it not say that our Advocate is Lord of all,