A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

4 He plays the Advocate in our behalf, by expressing his good will towards us, to his Father, he declares his will to be, that we may be cleared from all doubts and be where he is, to behold his glory, this he did upon earth, Joh. 17.24. and this very same doth he express for us in Heaven, and the reason of it is from Rom. 8.34. where his mediation is made a distinct work from his death, and resurrection, and ascension, and sitting at his Fathers right hand; besides all these, he makes requests for us in his own person, pleading to God for us for good things, as Moses did oft for the people, Exod. 32.31, 32. and as it was with Moses, so it is said it should be with Christ, Deut. 18.18. as Moses being a Mediator, put in a word of Peace for the people, so doth Christ.

4 He plays the Advocate in our behalf, by expressing his good will towards us, to his Father, he declares his will to be, that we may be cleared from all doubts and be where he is, to behold his glory, this he did upon earth, Joh. 17.24. and this very same doth he expresse for us in Heaven, and the reason of it is from Rom. 8.34. where his mediation is made a distinct worke from his death, and resurrection, and ascention, and sitting at his Fathers right hand; besides all these, he makes requests for us in his own person, pleading to God for us for good things, as Moses did oft for the people, Exod. 32.31, 32. and as it was with Moses, so it is said it should be with Christ, Deut. 18.18. as Moses being a Mediatour, put in a word of Peace for the people, so doth Christ.