An exposition upon the thirteenth chapter of the Revelation by that reverend and eminent…

For a third use of the point,¹ it may be for reproof to unconscionable Advocates (but I have not I think so much cause to speak of it here, but in most places of the world I might speak of it) It might teach all Advocates to take heed of bolstering out a bad Case by quirks of wit, and tricks and quillets of Law, the Lord abhors such things. If you will have the Lord to smell a savour of rest, plead the cause of the faithful, and of the widow, but thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor of the rich. And for men that profess Religion (as many Lawyers do) to use their tongues as weapons of unrighteousness unto wickedness, it is a professed practice against the doctrine of mortification; For a man to give his tongue (his glory, as David calls it) to become a member of unrighteousness, to plead in corrupt Causes, and to strain the Law to that purpose, were I to speak in place where, I should think it meet to speak more. But I shall not be accounted a good Lawyer, may some say: No, Christ was the best Advocate that ever was, and yet he could not answer: Let the cause be what it is, where the tree falls, let it lye: If Christ do keep silence in point of our righteousness, let us keep silence also in point of our own.

For a third use of the point,¹ it may be for reproof to unconscionable Advocates (but I have not I thinke so much cause to speak of it here, but in most places of the world I might speak of it) It might teach all Advocates to take heed of bolstering out a bad Case by qui•ks of wit, and tricks and quilets of Law, the Lord abhors such things. If you will have the Lord to smell a savour of rest, plead the cause of the faithful, and of the widow, but thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor of the rich. And for men that professe Religion (as many Lawyers do) to use their tongues as weapons of unrighteousnesse unto wickednesse, it is a professed practice against the doctrine of mortification; For a man to give his tongue (his glory, as David calls it) to become a member of unrighteousnesse, to plead in corrupt Causes, and to strain the Law to that purpose, were I to speake in place where, I should think it meet to speak more. But I shall not be accounted a good Lawyer, may some say: No, Christ was the best Advocate that ever was, and yet he could not answer: Let the cause be what it is, where the tree fals, let it lye: If Christ do keep silence in point of our righteousnesse, let us keep silence also in point of our own.