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

Thus have I given you (thus far) an Account of the Nature, End, and Necessity of the Advocateship of Jesus Christ: And should now come to the use and Application, only I must first remove an Objection or two.

Obj. But what need all these Offices of Jesus Christ, or what need you trouble us with these nice Distinctions, 'tis enough for us to believe in Christ, in the general, without considering him under this and that Office.

Answ. The Wisdom of God is not to be charged with needless doing, when it giveth to Jesus Christ such Variety of Offices, and calleth him to so many sundry Employments for us. They are all thought necessary, by Heaven and therefore should not be counted superfluous by Earth. And to put a Question upon thy Objection: What's a Sacrifice, without a Priest; and what's a Priest, without a Sacrifice? And the same I say of his Advocates Office, what's an Advocate without the Exercise of his Office? And what need of an Advocates ⟨p. 151⟩Office to be exercised, if Christ •s Sacrifice and Priest, by God, was thought sufficient? Each of these Offices are sufficient for the perfecting of the Work for which they are designed, but they are not all designed for the self same particular thing. Christ as Sacrifice offereth not himself, 'tis Christ as Priest does that: Christ as Priest dieth not for our Sins, 'tis Christ as Sacrifice does so. Again, Christ as a Sacrifice, and a Priest, limits himself to those two Employs, but as an Advocate, he lances out into a third. And since, these are not confounded in Heaven, nor by the Scriptures, they should not be confounded in our Apprehensions nor accounted useless.

Answ. The Wisdom of God is not to be charged with needless doing, when it giveth to Jesus Christ such Variety of Offices, and calleth him to so many sundry Imployments for us. They are all thought necessary, by Heaven and therefore should not be counted superfluous by Earth. And to put a Question upon thy Objection: What's a Sacrifice, without a Priest; and what's a Priest, without a Sacrifice? And the same I say of his Advocates Office, what's an Advocate without the Exercise of his Office? And what need of an Advocates