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

Secondly, As we should make use of Christ's Advocateship for the strengthening of our Faith, so we also should make use thereof to the encouraging of us to Prayer. As ⟨p. 185⟩our Faith is, so is our Prayer, to wit, cold, weak and doubtful if our Faith be so. When •aith cannot apprehend that we have access •o the Father by Christ, or that we have an Advocate when charged before God for our •ins by the Devil, then we flag and faint in •ur Prayer: But when we begin to take Cou•age to believe, and then we do so when most clearly we apprehend Christ, then we get up •n Prayer: And according as a Man apprehends Christ in his Undertakings, and Offices, •o he will wrestle with and supplicate God. •s suppose a Man believes that Christ died •or his Sins, why then he will plead that in •rayer with God. Suppose also that a Man understands that Christ rose again for his justification, why then he will also plead that […] Prayer: But if he knows no further, no ••rther will he go: But when he shall know ••at there is for him also an Advocate with ••e Father, and that that Advocate is Jesus Christ: And when the Glory of this Office of Christ shall shine in the Face of this Man's ••ul; Oh then he takes Courage to pray •ith that Courage he had not before, ••a then is his Faith so supported and made •rong that his Prayer is more fervent and importuning abundance.

Secondly, As we should make use of Christ's Advocateship for the strengthening of our Faith, so we also should make use thereof to the encouraging of us to Prayer. As