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

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⟩this heals all. Put a Vizor 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 Vizor is gone, if not from the Father's Face, yet from the Child's Mind: Yea the Child, notwithstanding that Vizor, 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.

Indeed the Advocateship of Jesus Christ is not much mentioned in the Word: And because it is no oftener made mention of, therefore, perhaps it is that some Christians do so lightly pass it over when on the contrary the rarity of the thing should make it the more admirable. And perhaps it is therefore so little made mention of in the Bible, because it should not by the common sort be abused: But is as it were privately dropped in a corner to be found by them that are fr finding Relief for their Soul by a diligent