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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	apostle_n	eternal_a	sin_n	4,819	5	4.9760	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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