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

Fourthly, as we should improve this Doctrine to strengthen Faith, to encourage Prayer, and to keep us humble: So we should make Use of it to encourage to Perseverance; that is, to hold on, to hold out to the end. For, for all those Causes the Apostle setteth Christ before us as an Advocate: There is nothing doth more discourage the truly Godly tha• the Sense of their own Infirmities (as ha• been hinted at all along); consequently, n• thing can more encourage them to go on than to think that Christ is an Advocate fo• them. The Services also that Christ ha• for us to do in this World, are full of Difficulty, and so apt discourage: But, whe• a Christian shall come to understand that (i• we do what we can) 'tis not a failing either in Matter or Manner that shall render it wholly unserviceable, or give the Devil that A• vantage as, to plead thereby to prevail fo• our Condemnation and Rejection; but tha• Christ by being our Advocate saves us fro• our falling short, and also from the Rage […] Hell: This will encourage us to hold o• though we do but hobble in all our goings, an• fumble in all our doings. For we have Chri•• for an Advocate in case we sin in the Manage meant ⟨p. 189⟩of any Duty. If any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Fourthly, as we should improve this Doctrine to strengthen Faith, to encourage Prayer, and to keep us humble: So we should make Vse of it to encourage to Perseverance; that is, to hold on, to hold out to the end. For, for all those Causes the Apostle setteth Christ before us as an Advocate: There is nothing doth more discourage the truly Godly tha• the Sense of their own Infirmities (as ha been hinted at all along); consequently, n thing can more encourage them to go on than to think that Christ is an Advocate fo them. The Services also that Christ ha for us to do in this World, are full of Difficulty, and so apt discourage: But, whe a Christian shall come to understand that (i we do what we can) 'tis not a failing eithe in Matter or Manner that shall render it wholly unserviceable, or give the Devil that A vantage as, to plead thereby to prevail fo our Condemnation and Rejection; but tha Christ by being our Advocate saves us fro our falling short, and also from the Rage Hell: This will encourage us to hold o though we do but hobble in all our goings, an fumble in all our doings. For we have Chri for an Advocate in case we sin in the Manag ment