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

Obj. But some may say there is God's Grace, the Promise, Christ's Blood, and his second Part of Priesthood now in Heaven: Can none of these ⟨p. 204⟩severally, nor all of them jointly save a Man from Hell, unless Christ also become our Advocate?

Answer: All these, his Advocates Office not excluded, are few enough, and little enough to save the Saints from Hell; For the righteous shall scarcely be saved, 1 Pet. 4.18. There must then be the Promise, God's Grace, Christ's Blood, and him to advocate too, or we cannot be saved. What's the Promise, without God's Grace, and what's that Grace without a Promise to bestow it on us? I say what Benefit have we thereby? Besides, if the Promise, and God's Grace without Christ's Blood would have saved us, wherefore then did Christ die? Yea, and again I say, if all these without his being for us an Advocate, would have delivered us from all those Disadvantages that our Sins and Infirmities would bring us to, and into; surely in vain and to no purpose was Jesus made an Advocate. But, Soul, there is need of all, and therefore be not thou offended that the Lord Jesus is of the Father made so much to his, but rather admire and wonder that the Father and the Son should be so concerned with so sorry • lump of Dust and ashes as thou art. And I say again, be confounded to think that Sin should be a thing so horrible, of Power to pollute, to captivate and detain us from ⟨p. 205⟩God, that without all this ado (I would speak with Reverence of God and his Wisdom) we cannot be delivered from the everlasting Destruction that it hath brought upon on the Children of Men.