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

What doth it bespeak concerning thee, That Christ is always a Priest in Heaven, and there ever lives to make Intercession for thee, Heb. 7.24. but this that thou art at thy best in thy self, yea, and in thy best exercising of all thy Graces too, but a poor, pitiful, sorry, sinful Man. A Man that would, when yet most holy, be certainly cast away, did not thy high-Priest take away for thee, the iniquity of thy holy things. The Age we live in is a wanton Age, the Godly are not so humble and low, and base in their own Eyes as they should. Tho their daily experience calls for it, and the Priest-hood of Jesus Christ too.

But above all, the Advocateship of Jesus Christ, declares us to be sorry Creatures. For that Office does as it were predict, that some time or other we shall basely fall, and by falling be undone, if the Lord Jesus stand not up to plead. And as it shows this concerning us; so it shows concerning God, that he will not lightly, or easily lose his People: He has provided well for us: Blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our Cause, and to recover us from under, and out of all that danger, that by Sin and Satan, we at any time may be brought into. But,

But above all, the Advocateship of Jesus Christ, declares us to be sorry Creatures. For that Office does as it were predict, that some time or other we shall basely fall, and by falling be undone, if the Lord Jesus stand not up to plead. And as it shews this concerning us; so it shews concerning God, that he will not lightly, or easily lose his People: He has provided well for us: Blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and in case we soully fall, an Advocate to plead our Cause, and to recover us from under, and out of all that danger, that by Sin and Satan, we at any time may be brought into. But,