C H R I S T AN A D V 0 C A T E. Book I!. ADVOCATE. IV. Some Advocates here below do more often mifs than carry Caufes, and many of them lofe more Caufes than they gain. D IS P A RI T Y. IV. But Chrif\, this high and holy, this crreat and good, this wife andju!t, this true and ri'aht– eous Advocate, carries every Caufe he undertakes. He will not undertake any Caufe, to plead effec– tually, but the Believers: He will not fpeak a Word for the Sons of Belial, that will not fubmit to his Laws: I pray net for the World, but for thofe thou haft given me, John xvii. 9· For thofe rhat willingly fubmit to h1s Laws, he IS fuccefsful to a wonder; whatever he deures IS clone for them his Prayers being always heard. ' V. An Advocate may carry a V. But the Lord Jefus, the Church's Advocate, Caufc here below, and there may makes fme Work; when he carrieth a Caufe, it lie an Appeal againft it in fame of is done in the higheft Court itfdt~ from whence the fuperior Courts, as the Court there is no Appeal. Every Caufe that Chrift of Chancery, &c. The Caufe may carrieth, is, like the Laws of the Medes and Per– be carried for a Perfon in one jians, 2 Sam. xxv. 4, 5· unalterable, •nd like the Court, and loft in another. Covenant, ordered in all Things, and fure; it is as the good Part Mary chafe, L uke x. 42. that fhall never be taken from her; neither Men nor Devils fball be able, by fraud nor force, to rake it away from them. It is God that jujlijietb, who is he that condemueth? It is Chrijl that died, yea, rather that is rifen again, who alfo maketh lntercejfion for us, Rom. viii. 33• 34· , VI. An Advocate in thefe lower VI. Chrift hath no Match or Equal, but he Courts, though he be an able Man, very much rranfccnds all his Oppoutes. Beelzebub yet he may be over-matched and hath had a great Name, but he is nothincr to out-done by others; it being a Jefus; Chrift makes him fly before him, and"fall Rule in mof\ Cafes, Not one fa like Lightning. He hath an awful Majefly in good, but he may find his Equal, his Words, that if he doth but fay, Get thee be– & c. hind me, Satan. '!'he Lord rebuke thee, Matt. iv. 11. Zech. iii. 2. Satan fi1rinks off fhamefully: He dares not, cannot ftand before this powerful Advocate. A P P L I C A T 0 N. I. BEHOLD the marvellous Goodnefs of God, that he fhould (in meer Mercy to us) appoint fuch an able Advocate, to whom the very Angels themfelves are inferior, in point of Wifdom, Power, Office, and Honor. Thofe Sons of the Morn– incr fhout for Joy at his Appearance as an Advocate, and pry into the Myftery of his ho';.orable Work, Job xxxviii. 7· 1 Pet. i. 12. II. There is great Encouragement eo come to this Advocate: God invites Men to come to Chrift for Advice, and to take his Counfel: '!'his is my bdoved Son, hear him, Matt. iii. 17. He is not concealed in fame fecret Chamber, where he cannot be found, but ftands at the Opening of the Gates, at the Place of the cbiefcjl Coiicourfe. God bath given him to be a Light to the Gentiles, and his Sal'Vation to the Ends of the Earth, Prov. i. 20, 21, 22. !fa. xlix. 6. Whoever believingly and in truth defires to have him for their Advocate, may have accefs unto him, and have their Caufe undertaken, pleaded, and effetl:ually managed by him, who is the Judge's own Son. The Motives to this Duty are many. . 1 • When poor Sinners come to rhis holy Advocate, they are kmdly embraced. 2. They have their Work readily undertaken, they are not tired out with Delays. 3 . They have it very carefully managed; the Caufe is not loft, nor fuffered to fall to the Ground, for want of prudent and careful Management, &c. . . 4 . It ,is a great ~aufe, that c~nnot fafely be truftect in any other Hand; rt IS about a Title to an lnhentance, wherem 1fa Manrmfcarry, he IS utterly undone, yea, urterly undone to Eternity. 5· Their Caufe is admitted of, and undertaken, withom Fees or any kind of Charges; he will do all freely w_ithout Money. , . . 6. There is much Peace, Sansfatl:Ion, and Secunty m It. A Man that bath com– mitted his Caufe to this Advocate, may fieep in Peace, go about his Bufinefs in Com– fort; neither need he in the leaft doubt or fear of what will follow, for there was never any
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