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

Having thus spoken to these Objections, let us now come to make some use of th• whole, and,

Use 1. First, I would exhort the Children […] consider the Dignity that God hath put upon Jesus Christ their Saviour. For by how muc• God hath called his Son to Offices and Place• of trust, by so much he hath heaped Dignities upon him. 'Tis said of Mordecai, That he wa• next to the King Ahasuerus. And what then▪ Why then the Greatness of Mordecai & his high Advance must be written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia, Esth. 10.1, 2, 3. to the end his Fame might not be buried nor forgot, but remembered and talked of in Generations to come. Why, my Brethren, God hath exalted Jesus of Nazareth: Hath made him the only great one▪ having given him a Name above every Name. A Name did I say, a Name and Glory, beyond all Names, and above all Names, a• doth witness both his being set above all, and the many Offices which he executeth for God on behalf of his People: 'Tis counted no little ⟨p. 163⟩Addition to Honour, when Men are, not only made near to the King, but also entrusted with most, if not almost with all the most weighty Affairs of the Kingdom. Why this is the Dignity of Christ, he is, 'tis true, the natural Son of God, and so high and one that abounds with Honour; but this is not all, God has conferred upon him as Man, all the high and most mighty Honours of Heaven. He hath made him Lord Mediator betwixt him and the World. This in general. And particularly, he hath called him to be his high Priest forever, Heb. 7.21, 22, 23, 24. and hath sworn he shall not be changed for another, he hath accepted of his Offering once forever, counting that there is wholly enough in what he did once, to perfect forever them that are sanctified, to wit set apart to Glory,