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

Sixthly the Necessity of the Advocateship of Jesus Christ for us further appears in this, to wit, for that our Evidences, which declare that we have a Right to the eternal Inheritance, are often out of our own Hand, yea, and also sometimes kept long from us. The which we come not at the Sight or Comfort of again but by our Advocate: Specially when our Evidences are taken from us because of a present forfeiture of this Inheritance to God by this or that most foul Offence. Evidences when they are thus taken away, as in David's Case; Psal. 51.12. they were, why then they are in the Hand of God, laid up I say from the sight of them to whom they belong, till they even forget the Contents thereof, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Sixthly the Necessity of the Advocateship of Jesus Christ for us further appears in this, to wit, for that our Evidences, which declare that we have a Right to the eternal Inheritance, are often out of our own Hand, yea, and also sometimes kept long from us. The which we come not at the Sight or Comfort of again but by our Advocate: Specially when our Evidences are taken from us because of a present forfeiture of this Inheritance to God by this or that most foul Offence. Evidenc•s when they are thus taken away, as in David's Case; Psal. 51.12. they were, why then they are in the Hand of God, laid up I say from the sight of them to whom they belong, till they even forget the Contents thereof, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Now when Writings and Evidences are out of the Hand of the Owners, and laid up in the Court where in Justice they ought to be kept, they are not ordinarily got thence again but by the Help of a Lawyer, an Advocate. Thus it is with the Children of God. We do often forfeit our Interest in eternal Life, but the Mercy is, the Forfeit falls into the Hand of God; (not of the Law, or of Satan) wherefore he taketh away also