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

This is done in open Court.

First, with an holy and just God: for he is the Judge of all, and his Eyes are purer than to behold Iniquity, yea his very Essence, and Presence is a consuming Fire, yet before, and with this God, and that for such a People, Jesus Christ the King will be an Advocate. For one mean Man to be an Advocate for the base, with one that is not considerable, is not so much: But for Christ to be an Advocate for the base, and for the base too under the basest Consideration, this is to be wondered at. When Bathsheba the Queen, became an Advocate for Adonijah unto King Solomon, you see how he flounced at her, for that his Cause was bad, And why, saith he, dost thou ask, Abishai, for Ad nijah: Ask for him the Kingdom also, 1 Kin. 2.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. I told you before, that to be an Advocate, did run one upon Hazards of Reproach, and it may easily be thought that the Queen did blush when from the King her Son she received such a Repulse: Nor do we hear any more of her being an Advocate; I believe she had enough of this. But ⟨p. 180⟩oh! this Christ of God, who himself is greater than Solomon, he is become an Advocate; an Advocate with the Father, who is the eternally just, and holy, and righteous God: And that for a People with Respect to him far worse than could be Adonijah in the Eyes of his Brother Solomon. Majesty, and Justice are dreadful in themselves, and much more so when approached by any, specially when the Cause, as to matter of Fact, is bad that the Man is guilty of, who is concerned in the Advocateship of his Friend. And yet Jesus Christ is still an Advocate for us, an Advocate with the Father.

First, with an holy and just God: for he is the Judge of all, and his Eyes are purer than to behold Iniquity, yea his very Essence, and Presence is a consuming Fire, yet before, and with this God, and that for such a People, Jesus Christ the King will be an Advocate. For one mean Man to be an Advocate for the base, with one that is not considerable, is not so much: But for Christ to be an Advocate for the base, and for the base too under the basest Consideration, this is to be wondred at. When Bathsheba the Queen, became an Advocate for Adonijah unto King Solomon, you see how he flounced at her, for that his Cause was bad, And why, saith he, dost thou ask, Abishai, for Ad nijah: Ask for him the Kingdom also,