Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

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Fourthly, Besides all this, Christ taking our sins upon him, satisfying divine justice and divine wrath, Jesus Christ is continually at the right hand of the Father to be thy advocate, that if the Devil or any shall accuse thee for any thing thou hast done before, Nay in case thou fearest any of thy sins should come up in the presence of of God to accuse thee, Jesus Christ stands at the right hand of his Father to be thine advocate, what is the office of an advocate? But if there be any accusation brought against such a man, the advocate stands to answer to the accusation; Jesus Christ, he stands at the right hand of ⟨p. 222⟩his father thus to do. In John, 2. and the first verse, My little Children, these things I write unto you, that ye sin not, and if any man sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous. A comfort it is to have one stand to plead at the right hand of the father, to be thine advocate, Christ is as real an advocate at the right hand of God for all believers, as ever any had any advocate in this world. I find often in scripture this, if you read in the 4. chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, you shall find there, that the holy Ghost speaks of a rest of God, the rest of the saints of God, Gods people; and mark what is the first encouragement he gives, and what ground he makes of the rest they have; in two or three places he speaks of the rest of Gods people, now the foundation of it is, For we have not an high Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all things tempted like as we are, yet without sin, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need, for we have a high Priest, that is the ground of the rest of the saints of God.