The work of Jesus Christ as an advocate clearly explained and largely improved for…

And who can now object against the Deliverance of the Child of God? God cannot; for he for Christ's Sake, according as he pleaded, hath forgiven us all Trespasses, Col. 2.13. Eph. 4.32. The Devil cannot; his Mouth is stopped as is plain in the Case of Joshua, Zech. 3. The Law cannot, for that approveth of what Christ has done. This then is the way of Christ's pleading.

And who can now object against the Deliverance of the Child of God? God cannot; for he for Christ's Sake, according as he pleaded, hath forgiven us all Trespasses, Col. 2.13. Eph. 4.32. The Devil cannot; his Mouth is stopp'd as is plain in the Case of Joshua, Zech. 3. The Law cannot, for that approveth of what Christ has done. This then is the way of Christ's pleading.

You must know, That when Christ pleads with God, he pleads with a just and righteous God, and therefore he must plead Law and nothing but Law: And this he pleaded in both these Pleas. First, in confessing of the Sin, he justified the Sentence of the Law, in pronouncing of it evil, and then in his laying of himself, his whole self, before God, for that Sin he vindicated the Sanction, and Perfection of the Law. Thus therefore he magnifies the Law and makes it Honourable, and yet brings off his Client, safe and sound in the view of all the Angels of God.

You must know, That when Christ pleads with God, he pleads with a just and righteous God, and therefore he must plead Law and nothing but Law: And this he pleaded in both these Pleas. First, in confessing of the Sin, he justified the Sentence of the Law, in pronouncing of it evil, and then in his laying of himself, his whole self, before God, for that Sin he vindicated the Sanction, and Perfection of the Law. Thus therefore he magnifies the Law and makes it Honorable, and yet brings off his Client, safe and sound in the view of all the Angels of God.