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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80141	A discourse of the true gospel blessedness in the New Covenant, or The distinction of the two Covenants, new and old, first and second. With the doing away of the first, and the establishment of the second, and likewise the mediatorship of Christ in the New Covenant, with some principles, duties, promises, and priviledges of the New Covenant. A useful companion for all saints at all times. / Written by Tho. Collier.	Collier, Thomas, fl. 1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing C5277; Thomason E1801_2; ESTC R35633	88,221	142

particular proposed namely 2. To prove that Jesus Christ is the middle person between God and man or the Mediator of the new covenant for proof see not onely the text which is full and clear but likewise chap. 8. 6. he is said to be the Mediator of a better Covenant that is of the new covenant which is established upon better promises c. and chap. 9. 15. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament c. and 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God and one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus Thus you see the truth lieth clear That Jesus Christ is the Mediator of the new covenant a truth of very great and special concernment for the Lords people to be acquainted with and established in it being the enemies design and great endeavour to ruine faith in this truth and hath gon very far in the work with many at this day 3. The persons for whom he is a Mediator and the matter for what and that not onely 1. Generally for men There is one God and one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. But secondly and more particularly and especially he is a Mediator of the new covenant so that then he is a Mediator for those included in the covenant between the Father and Christ I have before shewed that the covenant is made with Christ and in him with and for all the elect and chosen of the Father so that he mediates 1. For and in behalf of those given to him by the Father in order to the work of conversion and coming in to own the grace of the covenant My beloved friends I do believe that there is never a sinner converted from the evil of his way but it is by vertue of the Mediatorship of Jesus Christ at the right hand of God John 3. 3. Christ saith Except a man be born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God So the word in the Greek from above and Jam. 1. 17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights And truly the work of conversion and faith in Jesus is a good work Therefore it s added ver 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth It is such a gift as he that hath it not must be damned it is a fruit of the spirit that is the earnest of our i●●eritance the evidence of things not seen I suppose that none of knowledge and conscience dare deny but that all good is by vertue of Christ God gives it by him and that in way of Mediatorship It s true some there are who are so bold as to deny faith and conversion to be the gift of God that they would have to be beaten out of their own brains But as it is a gift from ●eaven so it is by vertue of Christs being there To deny this is to deny salvation by Jesus Christ for if saith and salvation be not by vertue of Christ his Mediatorship with the Father then salvation may be obtained without a Mediator and this absolutely destroys the Gospel and salvation by Jesus Christ But the new birth is a heavenly birth that is a birth from above Hence it is the Apostle saith Gal. 4. 26. Jerusalem which is above is free which is the Mother of us all and Psalm 87. speaking prophetically of the new covenant and of Jerusalem that City which is above and the flowing in of the Gentiles saith ver 4. 5. Of Zion it shall be said This and that man was born in her that is Jerusalem which is above from thence is the work wrought thence is the spirit given If I go away saith Christ I will send the spirit and he wil convince the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement John 16. 7 8. It s the spirits work to convince of sin c. that is to effect by the doctrine of the Gospel the whole work of conversion And the sending of the spirit is a fruit of Christs Mediatorship If I go not away the comforter will not come but if I go away I will send him and I will pray the Father and he will send you another comforter c. The Mediatorship of Christ and the doctrine of the Gospel concurs together and the spirit that is a fruit of Christs Mediatorship as well as the doctrine of salvation and is given to conversion in the preaching of the doctrine of the Gospel This I would learn of you received ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith Gal. 3. 2. So that it is evident that Jesus Christ is a Mediator of the new covenant in behalf of unconverted ones for their conversion and work of faith that they might come to know the grace given to them in Christ and so come to receive the grace prepared for them Luke 23. 34. Then said Jesus Father forgive them they know not what they do 2 He is a Mediator for all his people believers to whom the covenant is revealed or made known he is with the Father for them He is between God and man viz. His people That is it the Apostle saith 1 John 2. 1. If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous c. Heb. 9. 24. He is now in the presence of God for us that is for his people believers if they sin he is their Mediator and Advocate Quest But what doth he mediate for for his people Answ In brief he is all to his Father for his people and brings down all good from the Father to his people he makes both the persons and services of his people acceptable with the Father and makes the Fathers goodness and will acceptable to and with his people This is the sum of all from whence every branch flows But more particularly as he mediates to the Father for his people so 1. He presents their persons and makes them accepted though they are poor and wretched in themselves yet to the Father they are lovely in his son a word of singular consolation for poor Saints who live in the sight and sence of their own poverty Matth. 3. 17. And lo a voyce from heaven saying This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased God is not onely well pleased with Christ but he is well pleased in him with all his poor people and that is it Christ saith Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3. Jesus Christ is a Mediator for such and they are made accepted in the beloved Ephes 1. 6. Thus through the Mediatorship of Christ the persons of his people are accepted of the Father and so they stand in an acceptable justified state with God 2 Their services are by virtue of the Mediatorship of Christ accepted with God he is not onely well pleased with their persons but he is likewise