Robert Traill (Stedfast Adherence to the Profession of our Faith), Works 3:129-130:
If Christ were not interceding in heaven, a poor Christian would have a comfortless work in believing on earth: but our poor believing and his grand intercession, when they chime, if I may so speak, make wonderful music above. He sends his Spirit to work in us those desires after covenant-blessings, that he is pleading for in the virtue of his blood, in the highest sanctuary. Let your faith then argue thus: “Jesus Christ is at the Father’s right hand: I am a poor pleader at the footstool, but there is a strong pleader at the King’s elbow, if I may so speak, in the highest court, and it is his business to mind my affairs.” How strongly would believers plead, how believingly would they send up their broken desires to heaven, if they did duly know, that all their petitions must be sent up to God through Christ, and be perfumed with another kind of incense than they can give?
If Christ were not interceding in heaven, a poor Christian would have a comfortless work in believing on earth: but our poor believing and his grand intercession, when they chime, if I may so speak, make wonderful music above. He sends his Spirit to work in us those desires after covenant-blessings, that he is pleading for in the virtue of his blood, in the highest sanctuary. Let your faith then argue thus: “Jesus Christ is at the Father’s right hand: I am a poor pleader at the footstool, but there is a strong pleader at the King’s elbow, if I may so speak, in the highest court, and it is his business to mind my affairs.” How strongly would believers plead, how believingly would they send up their broken desires to heaven, if they did duly know, that all their petitions must be sent up to God through Christ, and be perfumed with another kind of incense than they can give?
