Now the reader will do well to notice that the prayer and look of our Lord Jesus Christ set forth, in a very striking and beautiful manner, the two grand aspects of Christ's present ministry as our Advocate with the Father. We have the value and prevalency of His intercession, and the power and efficacy of His word in the hands of the Holy Ghost, that "other Advocate." Christ's _prayer_ for Peter answers to His intercession for us. His _look_ upon Peter answers to His word brought home to us in the power of the Holy Ghost. When we sin--as, alas! we do in thought and deed--our blessed and adorable Advocate speaks to God on our behalf. This is the procuring cause of our repentance and restoration. But He speaks to us on God's behalf. This is the producing means. We shall not dwell upon the great subject of the advocacy here, having recently sought to unfold it in our papers on "The All-sufficiency of Christ." We shall close this paper with a brief reference to two or three of the moral features of Peter's restoration--features which, be it well remembered, must be looked for in every case of true restoration. In the first place there is THE STATE OF THE CONSCIENCE. Now, as to the full and complete restoration of Peter's conscience after his terrible fall, we have the most unquestionable evidence afforded in his after history. Take the touching scene at the sea of Tiberias, as given in John xxi.[4] Look at that dear, earnest, thorough man, girding his fisher's coat around him, and plunging into the sea, in order to get to the feet of his risen Lord! He waits neither for the ship nor for his companions, but in all the lovely freshness and liberty of a divinely restored conscience, he rushes to his Saviour's feet. There is no tormenting fear, no legal bondage, no doubt, darkness, or distance. His conscience is perfectly at rest. The prayer and the look--the two grand departments of the work of advocacy--had proved effectual. Peter's conscience was all right, sound, and good; and hence he could find his home in the presence of his Lord--his holy, happy home. [4] We have no record of Peter's first meeting with his Lord, after the resurrection.