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A05349	A treatise tending to unitie in a sermon preached at Droghedah on Whitsunday (being the ninth of Iune 1622.) before the Kings Majesties Commissioners for Ireland. By Henry Leslie.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1623 (1623)	STC 15501; ESTC S102368	36,074	58

that albeit eternall happinesse be due only by promise as a portion of grace yet it is duely performed by proportion of iustice God useth an equall inequalitie for every one shall receive his owne reward according to his owne labour 1. Cor. 3.8 So that God everie way is both iust and unpartiall Thus have I shewed that in what respect soever wee consider God he is without all respect of persons one and alike to all There is one God The third thing we have to speake of is that God is made one with us by a Mediator for there is a Mediator betweene God and man A mediator is a middle person that commeth betweene two parties that be at variance to be a meane of attonement and peace who dealeth with each partie untill he bring them under some contract and covenant Now it is plaine that God and man were at enmitie man the partie offending God the partie offended a middle person commeth in between and labours a reconciliation binding up a covenant between them That man shal satisfie for the wrong he hath done and performe obedience in times comming as also on the other part That God shall remit his wrath receive man into his favour and give unto him eternall life But because man was unable to performe his part of the covenant this same Mediator becommeth his suertie and undertaketh for him both to satisfie the law and iustice of God for mans sinne and also to make him performe obedience in time following by renewing him againe unto the image which he had lost in Adam That hee might performe the first hee behoved to be a Priest to offer up himselfe in an expiatorie sacrifice and that hee might performe the second it was needful that he should be a Prophet and a King for the corruption of man which he was to take away that man might performe obedience to God had two parts ignorance in the mind and enormitie or rebellion in the will and affections To cure our ignorance hee behoved to be a Prophet to instruct us to take away our enormitie and rebellion hee must be a King powerfully to convert our hearts and to rule the same by his spirit that so hee might make us to obey God all the rest of our life wee being once made partakers of his satisfaction So our Mediator being our suertie was both a Priest a Prophet and a King a Priest after the order of Melchizedeck Psal 110.4 a Prophet to be heard when Moses should hold his peace Deut. 18.18 a King to save his people whose name should be the Lord our righteousnesse Ier. 23.6 Davids Priest Moses his Prophet Ieremies King and these formerly had met double two of them in some other Melchizedeck King and Priest Samuel Priest and Prophet David Prophet and King never all three but in him alone As he who is Mediator betweene God and man is suertie for man performing his part so also doth he performe Gods part to man He who as Mediator or rather Suertie satisfied for sinne doth as he is God remit that sinne which he satisfied for receive man into his favour give him grace in this life and glory in the life to come and in a word performes all Gods part of the covenant For this cause the Apostle to the Hebrewes calleth the covenant in respect of Gods part Christs Testament because Christ hath bequeathed those things unto us in his legacie namely remission of sinnes iustification and eternall life So that we have a double benefite by the death of our Mediator one that thereby he hath satisfied for our sinnes as he is our Suertie another that thereby he hath confirmed his Testament contayning a disposition of these things which God hath bound himselfe by covenant to give us For a Testament is of no strength while the Testator liveth Heb. 9.16 Thus after a wonderfull maner one is both Mediator to draw on an agreement betweene these two parties and suertie for mans part of the bargaine and also he performeth Gods part of the covenant bequeathing unto us in legacie these things which God hath promised to give us and as a faithfull testator confirming the same by his death Then God is reconciled to man by a mediator but have the Angels no benefite by his mediation seeing the Apostle only saith that there is a mediator between God and man I answer that they have though not so great as man 1. They have this benefite that they are gathered and united under one head together with the rest of the Church for all things both which are in heaven and which are in earth are gathered together in one in Christ Ephes 1.10 2. They have this benefite also that their friendship with man is renued he being reconciled to God 3. By this mediator their ruins are repaired and their number filled because men that are reconciled succeed in the place of Angels that fell saith S. Austin 4. He furnisheth unto them matter of ioy for they reioyce at the conversion of a sinner 5. By him they get greater knowledge of the mysteries of God revealed unto them 6. By him they are confirmed so in grace that they cannot fall they being changeable of themselves therefore we say in the Schooles That though they have not a mediator of redemption yet they have a mediator of confirmation according to that of Bernard Qui erexit hominem lapsum dedit stanti Angelo ne laberetur sic illum de captivitate eruens sicut hunc à captivitate defendens Finally some say they have this benefite also that their obedience being not perfect enough of it selfe nor able to stand before God for he findeth iniquity in the Angels is accepted as most perfect for this mediators sake and therefore they are said even to be reconciled to God by this mediatour Col. 1.20 Others goe further saying that the Angels as also all other creatures besides man had declined somewhat from their first beginning but were restored againe to their integritie by this mediator and so they understand the word recapitulat Eph. 1.10 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth to call a thing backe to the first beginning as well as to gather in one head as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth both the head and beginning of a thing The fourth point set downe here is that this mediator is one There is one Mediator Whereby as I said before of the one God three things are signified that he is indivisible immutable and alike to all 1. He is one that is indivisible one onely not manie and that both in respect of his person and in respect of his office His person is indivisible and onely one for albeit he be God and man yet he is not two but one Non alter ex patre alter ex matre sed aliter ex patre aliter ex matre as was concluded against the wicked heresie of Nestorius Bishop of Constantinople who divided the two natures of our

A TREATISE TENDING TO VNITIE IN A SERMON PREACHED AT DROGHEDAH ON WHITSVNDAY being the ninth of Iune 1622. before the Kings Majesties Commissioners for IRELAND By Henry Leslie Quoties dicimus toties judicamur Hierom. DUBLIN Printed by the Societie of Stationers 1623. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD CHRISTOPHER by Gods providence Archbishop of Ardmagh Primate of all Ireland and Metropolitan and one of his Maiesties most honourable Privie Councell MOST REVEREND IT was by your Graces direction that this Sermon was preached and now by the same appointment it is published that the world may see it contayneth nothing but truth and is free from undiscreet raylings wherewith it was charged by them who dare adventure to censure us before they heare us Now these my small labours and the labours of some few dayes being the first fruits of my weake engine I here present unto your Grace to whom I owe my selfe and all I have much more my service with the labour of my hands head and heart as most bounden Indeed this small offering is no more equivalent to my debt than a mole-hill is to a mountaine But whatsoever my barren ground can afford shall be ever at your Honours command to which most humbly I prostrate my selfe praying alwayes that God would be pleased to continue your Grace long unto this poore Church of Ireland that like another Nehemiah you may build up the walls of this decayed IERUSALEM Your Graces most bounden Chaplaine HENRY LESLY A TREATISE TENDING TO VNITIE I. TIM II. V. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men the man Christ Iesus VNder the Old Testament they observed the Feast of Pentecost in remembrance of the Law given at Sinai so it hath beene the practise of the Church under the New Testament to keep the like Feast at the same time in remembrance of the Gospell which came from Ierusalem For if the Law should be thus honoured which is the ministration of death 2. Cor. 3.7 how much more the Gospell which is the ministration of life and that not written in tables of stone as was the Law but in the tables of our hearts by the holy Spirit for this Spirit did descend upon the Apostles in a visible shape on the day of Pentecost Act. 2 according to Christs promise that hee would send unto them another comforter Ioh. 14.16 17 26. even the Spirit of truth Ioh. 16.13 1. Cor. 2.10 to leade them into all truth to teach them all things even the deepe things of God So that those great and secret mysteries which under the Old Testament were shut up from the people like unto the Sanctuarie into which entrance was seldome made are now made open to the understanding of all the faithfull for this Spirit hath revealed them unto the Apostles and the Apostles in their writings have cleerely taught them unto us Even in these few words which I have read behold a bundle of these mysteries but obscurely known in former times now plainly set forth unto us as the mysterie of the Godhead of our reconciliation to God of Christs mediation and of his incarnation There is one God and one mediator betweene God and men the man Christ Iesus The words containe the summe of the Gospell and chiefe heads of our Christian faith catechising us plainly in sixe maine grounds and principles of Religion I. That there is a God else how should he be one II. that this God is one there is one God III. that this one God is reconciled and made one with us by a mediator for there is a mediator betweene God and men IV. that this mediator is one and one mediator V. that Christ Iesus is this one mediator VI. that Christ Iesus is a man the man Christ Iesus There is one God and one mediator betweene God and men the man Christ Iesus Thus hee leadeth us by the hand from those things which are most commonly knowne and received to these that be lesse manifest everie one of these principles revealing unto us a greater mysterie and further degree of knowledge For the first that there is a God is acknowledged by all men The second that this God is one is not so commonly knowne as the former for the Gentiles worshipped a multitude of gods yet is it generally confessed not only by the Church but also by the wisest of the Heathen The third that this God is reconciled to us by a mediator exceeds the knowledge of all Gentiles whatsoever who had nothing but the light of nature for it is not knowne by nature but by revelation from God yet is it granted by manie false teachers Papists Iewes and also others who receive but a parcell of Gods word But the fourth that this mediator is one is lesse manifest yet for it is refused by the Papists yet received by the Iewes But the fift that Christ Iesus is this one mediator doth exceed their faith also yet is it acknowledged by manie Heretickes who notwithstanding denied the humane nature of Christ So that the sixt and last that Christ Iesus is a man is most hid and privie as being the proper faith of the true Church As every one of these principles revealeth a further degree of knowledge so also a greater measure of comfort The first that there is a God to whom wee may have recourse in the day of trouble is a great comfort to us but if there were manie Gods so that wee knew not to which of them we should runne for help our comfort were but small therefore the second principle shewes that this God is onely one But albeit there be a God and onely one God yet if we be at enmitie with him wee have greater cause to feare than to reioyce in the third place therefore hee removeth this feare shewing that there is a mediator by whom man is reconciled unto God But yet if there were not one but manie mediators and wee knew not to whom rather to betake us what better should we be therefore in the fourth hee taketh away this doubt also affirming that there is one mediator But though there be but one mediator yet what if he be unknowne to us wee are still as before therefore the fift position leades us by the hand unto the particular person Christ Iesus who is this one mediator But what of all this if Christ Iesus be only God and so as strange to us as the pattic it selfe with whom we are at enmitie therefore to make our ioy full the sixt principle tells us that hee is a man A man and so neare unto us not in place for hee is contayned within the heavens according to his manhood but neare unto us in blood for he is a brother of ours bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh and neare unto us in affection for he hath compassionate bowels he is touched with a feeling of our infirmities Heb. 4.15 and was in all sorts tempted