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

4. This Consideration, or the Consideration of Christ as exercising of this Office, will help thee to put by that visor wherewith Christ by Satan is misrepresented to thee to the weakening and affrighting of thee. There is nothing more common among Saints, than thus to be wronged by Satan: For as he will labour to fetch Fire out of the Offices of Christ to burn us, so to present him to us with so dreadful and so ireful a Countenance, that a Man in Temptation and under Guilt, shall hardly be able to lift up his Face to God.

4. This Consideration, or the Consideration of Christ as exercising of this Office, will help thee to put by that vizor wherewith Christ by Satan is misrepresented to thee to the weakning and affrighting of thee. There is nothing more common among Saints, than thus to be wronged by Satan: For as he will labour to fetch Fire out of the Offices of Christ to burn us, so to present him to us with so dreadful and so ireful a Countenance, that a Man in Temptation and under Guilt, shall hardly be able to lift up his Face to God.

But now, to think really that he is my Advocate ⟨p. 171⟩this heals all. Put a Visor upon the Face of a Father, and it may perhaps for a while fright the Child, but let the Father speak, let him speak in his own Fatherly Dialect to the Child, and the Visor is gone, if not from the Father's Face, yet from the Child's Mind: Yea the Child, notwithstanding that Visor, will adventure to creep into it's Fathers Bosom. Why thus it is with the Saints when Satan deludes, and abuses them by disfiguring of the Countenance of Christ to their view: Let them but hear their Lord speak in his own natural Dialect, (and then he doth so indeed when we hear him speak as an Advocate) and their Minds are calmed, their Thoughts settled, their Guilt made to vanish, and their Faith to revive.

But now, to think really that he is my Advocate ⟨p. 171⟩