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

Answ. 'Tis true, Sin is and will be a deadly stick and stop to Faith, attempt to exercise it upon Christ as considered under which of his Offices, or Relations you will: And above all, the Sin of Unbelief is the Sin that doth so, or most easily beset us, Heb. 12.1, 2. And no marvel, for it never acteth alone, but is backed, not only with Guilt and Ignorance, but also with carnal Sense, and Reason. He that is ignorant of this, knows but little of himself, or of what believing is. He that undertaketh to believe, sets upon the hardest Task that ever was proposed to Man; not because the things imposed upon us are unreasonable or unaccountable, but because the Heart of Man, the more true any thing is, the more it sticketh and stumbleth thereat. And says Christ, because I tell you the truth, ye ••lieve me not, Joh. 8.45. Hence believing ⟨p. 154⟩is called labouring, Heb. 4.11. and 'tis the sorest Labour (at times) that any Man can take in Hand, because assaulted with the greatest Oppositions; but believe thou must, be the Labour never so hard, and that, not only in Christ in a general way, but in him as to his several Offices, and as to this of his being an Advocate in particular; else some Sins and some Temptations will not, in their Guilt nor vexatious Trouble, easily depart from thy Conscience, no not by Promise nor by thy Attempts to apply the same by Faith. And this the Text insinuateth, by it's setting forth of Christ as Advocate; as the only or best and most speedy Way of Relief to the Soul, in certain Cases.

Answ. 'Tis true, Sin is and will be a deadly stick and stop to Faith, attempt to exercise it upon Christ as considered under which of his Offices, or Relations you will: And above all, the Sin of Vnbelief is the Sin that doth so, or most easily beset us, Heb. 12.1, 2. And no marvel, for it never acteth alone, but is backed, not only with Guilt and Ignorance, but also with carnal Sense, and Reason. He that is ignorant of this, knows but little of himself, or of what believing is. He that undertaketh to believe, sets upon the hardest Task that ever was proposed to Man; not ecause the things imposed upon us are unreasonable or unaccountable, but because the Heart of Man, the more true any thing is, the more it sticketh and stumbleth thereat. And says Christ, because I tell you the truth, ye lieve me not,