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

If these be not sufficient Arguments to bow us to yield up our Members, our selves, our whole selves to God, that we may be Servants of Righteousness unto him: Yea if by these and such like we are not made willing to stand up for him before Men; 'tis a Sign that there's but little, if any of the Grace of God in our Hearts.

Yea, further that we should have now, at last, in Reserve, Christ as authorized to be our Advocate to plead for us, for this is the last of his Offices for us while we are here: And is to be put in practice for us when there are ⟨p. 194⟩more than ordinary Occasions. This is to help as we say, at a dead lift. Even then when a Christian is taken for a Captive: Or when he sinks in the mire where is no standing; or when he is clothed in filthy Garments; or when the Devil doth desperately plead against us our evil Deeds; or when by our Lives we have made our Salvation questionable, and have forfeited our Evidences for Heaven: And why then should not we have also in reserve for Christ? And when Profession, and Confession, will not do: When Loss of Goods and a Prison will not do: When Loss of Country and of Friends will not do: Then to bring it in; then to bring it in as the Reserve, and as that which will do: To wit, willingly to lay down our Lives for his Name, Isa. 24.15. Joh. 21.19. and since he doth his part without grudging for us, let us do ours with rejoicing for him.

Yea, further that we should have now, at last, in Reserve, Christ as authorized to be our Advocate to plead for us, for this is the last of his Offices for us while we are here: And is to be put in practice for us when there are ⟨p. 194⟩more than ordinary Occasions. This is to help as we say, at a dead lift. Even then when a Christian is taken for a Captive: Or when he sinks in the mire where is no standing; or when he is cloathed in filthy Garments; or when the Devil doth desperately plead against us our evil Deeds; or when by our Lives we have made our Salvation questionable, and have forfeited our Evidences for Heaven: And why then should not we have also in reserve for Christ? And when Profession, and Confession, will not do: When Loss of Goods and a Prison will not do: When Loss of Country and of Friends will not do: Then to bring it in; then to bring it in as the Reserve, and as that which will do: To wit, willingly to lay down our Lives for his Name,