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

First, To touch upon the Nature of this Office. It is that which empowereth a Man to plead for a Man, or one man to plead for another, not in common Discourses, and upon common Occasions, as any man may do; but at a Bar, or before a Court of Judicature, where a Man is accused or impleaded by his Enemy. I say this Advocate's Office, is such both here, and in the Kingdom of Heaven. An Advocate is as one of our Attorneys, at least in the general, who pleads according to Law and Justice for one or other that is in trouble by Reason of some Miscarriage, or of the naughty Temper of some that are about him, who trouble, and vex, and labour to bring him into danger of the Law. This is the Nature of this Office, as I said, on Earth; and this is the Office that Christ executeth in Heaven. Wherefore he saith, If any Man sin, we have an Advocate; one to stand up for him, and to plead for his deliverance before the Bar of God, Joel 3.2. Isa. 66.16. Ezek. 38.22. Jer. 2.

First, To touch upon the Nature of this Office. It is that which impowereth a Man to plead for a Man, or one man to plead for another, not in common Discourses, and upon common Occasions, as any man may do; but at a Bar, or before a Court of Judicature, where a Man is accused or impleaded by his Enemy. I say this Advocate's Office, is such both here, and in the Kingdom of Heaven. An Advocate is as one of our Attorneys, at least in the general, who pleads according to Law and Justice for one or other that is in trouble by Reason of some Miscarriage, or of the naughty Temper of some that are about him, who trouble, and vex, and labour to bring him into danger of the Law. This is the Nature of this Office, as I said, on Earth; and this is the Office that Christ executeth in Heaven. Wherefore he saith, If any Man sin, we have an Advocate; one to stand up for him, and to plead for his deliverance before the Bar of God, Joel 3.2. Isa. 66.16. Ezek. 38.22.