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A42773	The ark of the covenant opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of redemption between God and Christ, as the foundation of the covenant of grace the second part, wherein is proved, that there is such a covenant, the necessity of it, the nature, properties, parties thereof, the tenor, articles, subject-matter of redemption, the commands, conditions, and promises annexed, the harmony of the covenant of reconciliation made with sinners, wherein they agree, wherein they differ, grounds of comfort from the covenant of suretiship / written by a minister of the New Testament.	Gillespie, Patrick, 1617-1675.	1677 (1677)	Wing G766; ESTC R3490	407,671	492

making the Soul close with God in a Covenant 3. By making us receive Christ himself in the promises Joh. 1.12 But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name For as Faith hath for the object of it the whole Word of God so especially the promises and more especially Christ in the promises 4. By making us give up our selves to be Christs and no more our own Isa 44.5 One shall say I am the Lords and by making us subject our Consent unto him as the Wife doth to the Husband in a Marriage-Covenant 2 Cor. 9.13 And all this is the Mediators work and the execution of his Office For 1. It is he that offers the Covenant Heb. 12.25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh 2. It is he that shapeth the heart for acceptation of the offer Ezek 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you 3. It is he that engageth the heart to God by a Covenant Jer. 30.21 And I will cause him to draw near and he shall approach unto me for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me saith the Lord Joh. 12.32 And I if I be lifted up from the Earth will draw all men unto me 4. It is he that maketh us give up our selves to him Ezek. 36.27 28 And I will put my Spirit into you and cause you to walk in my wayes And ye shall be my people and I will be your God The third part of the Mediators work in the execution of his Office is to enable them whom he bringeth into the Covenant of Grace to perform the duty of the Covenant according to his undertaking to his Father on their behalf and for this effect 1. He circumciseth their hearts and taketh away the stone and natural aversness and rebellion against Covenant-duties Deut. 30.6 And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul that thou maist live Ezek. 36.26 And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh 2. He engraffeth a new inward principle in their hearts of compliance with and propension unto their duty Jer. 31.33 I will put my Law into their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God and they shall be my people And 32.40 I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me 3. He affordeth strength to them for performing the duties of the Covenant and maketh his Grace effectual in them for that end see Ezek 36.37 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them He craveth his Rent and filleth the hand wherewith to pay it Psal 1.11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God 2 Cor. 9.8 And God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye alwayes having all-sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work 4. He breathes upon the graces of his people and acteth them by daily fresh and quickening assistances Song 4.16 Awake O North wind and come O South blow upon my Garden that the spices thereof may flow out Yea he worketh in us and for us all that which we take upon us as duty in the Covenant of Grace Isa 26.12 For thou also hast wrought all our works in us Phil. 2.13 For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure The fourth part of the Mediators work in executing this Office is to keep those whom he bringeth into the Covevenant from falling away from that blessed estate If it were not for the Mediators travelling in this work the reconciliation once made could not stand if he did not continue for ever Mediator of the New Covenant we should not for ever continue in that Covenant-state Heb. 7.24 25 But this man because he continueth ever hath an unchangeable Priesthood Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them And for keeping believers in this Covenant Christ the Mediator beside his contriving the Covenant so that breaches shall not make it void Psal 89.30 33 If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgments Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail Jer. 31.34 I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sin no more 1. He gifteth them with and conveyeth to them an immortal and everlasting principle of Grace that cannot dye nor utterly perish Joh. 4.14 But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life 1 Joh. 3.9 His seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 2. He keepeth life by his intercession in that engaging principle of Faith that it fail not Luke 22.32 But I have prayed for thee that thy Faith fail not But all this could not effect the business being but our gripe of him therefore 3. Consider how he keepeth a gripe of them he engageth his Father to keep his people and he himself employeth all the power credit and interest that he hath in Heaven and Earth to keep them in that blessed state Joh. 17.11 12 And now I am no more in the World but these are in the World And I come to thee holy Father keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are While I was with them in the world I kept them through thy name those whom thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the Son of perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled 1 Pet. 1.5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time Joh. 10.28 29 And I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand Deut. 33.27 The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath is the everlasting arms Isa 40.29 He giveth power to them that are faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength 4. He maintaineth the peace and agreement that he made through his own being in Heaven a constant and ordinary Agent to apear in the presence of God for us Heb. 9.24 Who lieth there of purpose that the Covenant betwixt God and his people may continue and that league never be broken for so long as Christ appeareth in Heaven there shall be peace and friendship for

thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost 2. Again by this part of Christs Suretiship he is undertaker and engager to make all these things which are required of us both possible and certain in the performance 1. To reveal and manifest the way of righteousness and life through the new Covenant Joh. 17.6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world 2. To make the condition of the new Covenant possible and practicable which considered with relation to our own strength are as impossible to man now as the conditions of the first Covenant are Joh. 6.44 No man can come to me except the father which hath sent me draw him 2 Cor. 3.5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God Joh. 15.5 For without me ye can do nothing And this part of Christs Suretiship doth put his people in such condition by the power which they shall receive from the grace of Christ as Adam was in by the power which he received from God by nature and this is done by healing our nature and creating and infusing new habitual grace whereby he makes the conditions of the new Covenant practicable and possible to man through the power of grace received from Christ as it was possible for Adam to have performed the conditions of the first Covenant by the power which he received by nature Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me But this is not all 3. Christ as Surety for man to God engageth not only to make the conditions of this Covenant possible as the conditions of the first Covenant were to Adam but also to make them Sure he undertaketh to ensure his peoples performance of the things required of them by the Covenant of grace whether they be such things as are required of them by meer commands which hold forth the Duties of the confederates or if they be required of them by commands which are also conditions of the Covenant by the obedience or disobedience whereof they must live or die such as the command of believing Joh. 3.36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him Act. 16.31 And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thine house 1 Joh. 3.23 And this is his commandment that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment And this which Christ engageth that his people shall receive of him through grace is much more than Adam received by nature for he had not his performance of the conditions of that Covenant and his standing ensured to him he had but a possibility to have performed conditions that were commanded him but no certainty Now we know that things may be possible both considered in themselves and considered with relation to the Agent which notwithstanding from some other cause and defect may resolve in a non-futurition yea for all that it may be certain that they shall never be and come to pass as was Adams standing and performing the conditions of the Covenant of works But now by Christs Suretiship for his people he is engaged for their standing and for their actual performance of the conditions of that Covenant of grace they are not only put into a possibility of standing but they are put into such a certainty by the Suretiship of Christ that they are exempted from the possibility of non-performance of the conditions of this Covenant Luk. 22.32 But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Mat. 16.18 And upon this rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it 1 Pet. 1.5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time Jer. 32.39 40 And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever for the good of them of their children after them And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me 3. By this part of Christs Suretiship for man to God and in order to the making the conditions and commands of the new Covenant possible and certain in the issue he is engaged for giving habitual grace and for giving actual influences 1. Habitual grace Christ as Surety of the Covenant did undertake to give to his people the immortal seed of God to repair that defaced Image of God in man by a new creation of the habits of grace in him he is engaged to give a new stock of grace to man who had once before banquered out a stock that shall thrive in his hand and wherewith he shall never henceforth play the bankrupt this is the new heart and the new spirit promised by Christ who made the Covenant and engaged to fulfil and to act it upon the hearts of his people Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will 〈◊〉 put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh Jer. 31.33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days saith the Lord I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people Heb. 8.6 10 11 12. 2. Christ is engaged and hath undertaken for actual influences Ezek. 36 27 And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them Isa 44.3 For I will pour water upon them that are thirsty and floods upon the dry ground I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine off-spring Because God hath contrived the business so that no created thing should act independently of him without the spirit without influences not Adam in his integrity not the Angels not the holy humane nature of Christ Isa 42.1 2 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street And since habitual created grace can neither preserve it self nor act it self nor encrease it self without influences therefore Christ as Surety for man to God did engage for actual influences whereby habitual grace might be acted unto a performance and fulfilling of these things which are conditions or commands in the Covenant upon our part and by this he stands engaged 1. For actual bowing of our wills and determining our hearts to

grievous Mat. 11.30 For my yoke is easie and my burden is light 2. Why should broken men and diver Debtors think to pay this Debt or to perform their duty without the help of their cautioner do you not often attempt this to make amends to God for your faults and to be more forth-coming in your performances even you alone without Christ your Surety Joh. 15.4 5 Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing 2 Cor. 3.5 Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God Rom. 10.3 and 9.31 But these did better who would do nothing without their Surety Isa 38.14 Mine eyes fail with looking upward O Lord I am oppressed undertake for me Psal 110.32 122 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge mine heart Be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me 3. Why do you question and suspect the Covenant of God and the grounds of faith and assurance granted therein is there not a Surety in the Covenant which shall make it stand fast and in whom it shall stand fast with you so that there is no ground left for doubting and fears that it may be shaken Psal 89.28 35 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lye unto David Heb. 6.17 18 Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us 4. Why do you lean upon any thing and seek relief from that which God hath not made the Surety of the Covenant why do you take caution from your own hearts for any thing commanded in the Covenant can your resolutions be caution and Surety to God for you can your stock of gifts or grace be Surety for your performance of any thing commanded or set as a condition in the Gospel Nay sure they cannot 1 Cor. 1.13 as the Apostle saith These were not crucified for you these never became Surety to God for you and if so wherefore do you trust in them and lean upon them Vse 3. For tryal whether Christ hath undertaken and come under an act of Suretiship for you This being among Gods eternal secrets and immutable counsels it is to be found out by the effects thereof whereby God hath shewed to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel Heb. 6.17 Then 1. If you be in the Covenant of grace or if you be reached by any of these qualifications by which he describes those persons who are comprehended in his Testament then hath Christ undertaken for you for he is Surety of the new Covenant and better Testament Heb. 7.22 and 8.6 And consequently hath undertaken for all those who are comprehended in it Isa 56.6 Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord to serve him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my covenant Joh. 13.8 Jesus answered him If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Joh. 15.2 15 16 And every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known unto you Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he may give it you Joh. 17.6 7 8 2. If he hath acted the Covenant upon your hearts according as it is commanded in the Gospel and according as it s foretold that he will fulfill it effectually in his people then hath he undertaken for you and hereby you may know it for a certainty Jer. 31.33 I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people Ezek. 11.19 And I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them an heart of flesh Ezek. 36.26 A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh Joh. 6.37 All that the father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will no wise cast out 3. If Christ hath taken your name out of the Law-writ and curse and hath put your name in the Gospel-writ and written you blessed in that little book or pronounced you such by any thing contained in it then hath he undertaken for you Rom. 4.7 8 Saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin Gal. 3.9 13 29 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us and if ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise 4. If you can go out of your selves and find in your heart to engage him for you and to lay the weight of your eternal interests upon him your righteousness and salvation and of all things commanded in the Gospel in order to these then hath he undertaken for you for he doth not give such a heart to any but to them for whom he came under an act of Suretiship Phil. 3.3 For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Isa 38.14 O Lord I am oppressed undertake for me Psal 119.32 35 122 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart Make me to go in the path of thy commandments for there in do I delight be surety for thy servant for good Vse 4. The Doctrine of Christs Suretiship doth confirm many articles of our faith As 1. The particularity and freeness of election for if Christ had the Elect given to him by a Covenant and did from eternity undertake

Scriptures Yea so much was the Covenant betwixt God and Christ about our Redemption for the glory of God even considered personally that thereby beside the glory that was common to all the three Persons there did accrue a peculiar glory to the distinct Persons of the Godhead in regard of their distinct offices and working in this business of Redemption a peculiar glory to the Father who gave Christ and who sent him upon this business and blessed us in him even a peculiar honour to the Father from the Lord Mediator and Redeemer Joh. 8.49 But I honour my Father saith Christ and a peculiar honour to the Father from the ransomed and redeemed People 1 Pet. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again into a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead A peculiar honour to the Son to Christ the Lord Mediator and that both upon earth and in heaven a peculiar glory to the Lamb that wrought the Redemption unto which his Father appointed him Joh. 5.22 23 For the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment to the Son that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father which the Son claimeth Joh. 17.1 4 These words spoke Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said Father the hour is come glorifie thy Son that thy Son also may glorifie thee I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do And which is payed to him in heaven Rev. 7.10 Saying Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb. And 5.9 And they sing a new song saying thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation A peculiar glory unto the eternal Spirit by whom the Son of God offered himself without spot to God Heb. 9.14 and to whom the effectual application of the purchased Redemption by peculiar office belongs 1 Cor. 6.11 And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God Joh. 6.63 It is the spirit that quickeneth Gal. 4.6 And because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts crying Abba father 2. The good of the ransomed and redeemed people required that their Redemption should be transacted in a Covenant betwixt God and Christ and to this intent and for this end it was necessary 1. To introduce and usher in the new way of life thorow the Gospel-dispensation which could never have come to light nor have appeared upon the stage to act any thing if God had not by his eternal transactions with Christ in whom he found a ransome made way for the taking down the transient-time-dispensation of Law and Works which was only to continue and stand a Court of righteousness for a short space and so opened a door for free Grace to take the Theatre and to act its part more nobly than the Law-dispensation that was first upon the stage And this I say was ushered in and it was necessary that way should be made for it by God's Covenant-dealings with Christ in whom his Justice had a satisfaction else the Law-dispensation of Works and Nature had kept the Stage for ever and there had been no Court wherein Grace sits upon the throne and wherein Sinners might plead righteousness and life on Gospel-terms Christ's saying from eternity Lo I come to do thy will O God Psal 40.6 And deliver him from going down to the pit I have found a ransom Job 33.24 Which words are upon the matter and originally true of Christ's dealings with his Father Jo. Cocc D● foed c. 5. Sect. 88. and by some Expositors applyed to him This I say ushered in and made way for the Gospel-dispensation of a Covenant of free Grace Hence it is that the Apostle states the rise of life and immortality that is brought to light by the Gospel upon the eternal foederal dealings that were betwixt God and Christ 2 Tim. 1.9 10 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ before the world began But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel Rom. 8.3 4 For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh 2. The Covenant of Redemption betwixt God and Christ was necessary for our good that the Covenant of life and righteousness to us in the way of this Gospel-dispensation might be pure soveraign Grace Now the more of Grace and God's gracious will and heart is in the business and the less of the Creatures will and acting the better for us the sweeter and the surer is the Covenant But here all is of the Lord and of his gracious will all is transacted betwixt God and Christ and man is not so much is present at the first transaction of the Covenant as he was at the Covenant of works here he is neither at the beginning nor end of it I mean that end which it had in God's foederal dealings with Christ where the Redemption and Salvation of the elect was a concluded business and the conclusion tarried not nor was suspended for man's consent sure this was pure Grace this was all Grace eminent Grace when there was nothing of the Creature no not so much as acting in a vital formal manner as now we act under the application of this Covenant by these gracious acts which are efficiently from God but there all was the gracious free will of God without any thing of the Creatures will surely that was eminent signal Grace and the better for us 2 Tim. 1.9 Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began Eph. 2.10 For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them Eph. 1.4 5 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love Having predestinated us unto the Adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will 3. A Covenant betwixt God and Christ about our Salvation and Redemption was necessary that the business of our Salvation might be far advanced ere it come to our working at it with fear

to make reconciliation for the sins of the people If you have any direction to receive from God if you have any blessing to receive you need a Mediator to procure it to you and to receive it for you If you have any service to offer to God any duty to perform you need a Mediator both to afford you strength to perform it and to offer it to God for you if you have any evil to deprecate you need a Mediator to avert it whether it be for sins before or after conversion 1. In all cases not only in thy deadness and indispositions for duties but when thy heart is in best frame thy tenderness and good frame cannot mediate for thee Dan. 9.3 17 And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayers and supplications with fasting and sack-cloath and ashes Now therefore O our God hear the prayer of thy servant and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lords sake Isa 38.3 14 And Hezekiah wept sore Like a Crane or a Swallow so did I chatter I did mourn as a Dove mine eyes fail with looking upward O Lord I am oppressed undertake for me Not only when thou art at distance with God and canst not find access but when thou art nearest to him and admitted to his presence to speak before his throne then thou needest a Mediator not only for establishing thee in that good condition but for covering the evil of thy best condition Isa 64.6 But we are all as an unclean thing and our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Chap. 6. v. 5 Then said I Wo is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the Lord of Hosts Vse 3. Study to carry as becometh those who need a Mediator and for this end take these directions 1. Take care to beat down self-confidence and self adoration even of every thing in you that is not Christ his gifts and graces and assistances not excepted put not a created grace in Christs room be not lifted up with these nor led away from the Mediator by them Phil. 3. ● 4 For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Though I might also have confidence in the flesh if any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh I more 2. When duties go well and a good frame of spirit is enjoyed watch that your hearts lay not the weight of your acceptation upon these things but that you keep them especially within sight of Christs Mediation as the ground of your confidence Phil. 3.7 But what things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ 3. Let your employing of him be as large as the extent of his mediation reaches to and that is to all things pertaining to God Heb. 2.17 Shut him not out of his office in any thing that is a matter betwixt God and you think not to put him to drudg at your burdens and to slight him in other things he will not be so dealt with 4. Let us beware of tempting Christ of grieving the Mediator if you carry about with you the fresh conviction of your need of him you will be very tender and wary of tempting him and sinning against him 1 Cor. 10.9 Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of Serpents CHAP. IX Of the Person who is Mediator and of the great discoveries of God which are made to us in and through Christ IN the next place I shall speak something of the Mediators Person or of the Person who is Mediator and his fitness and qualification for this work When the person is known his fitness for the Mediatorship will appear for it is namely in order to that end that we speak here of the Person who is Mediator that his compleat qualifications for that Office and the discoveries which are made of God to us through him may be known And 1. Before we speak of the Mediators Office let us consider the Person who is Mediator of the new Covenant Jesus Christ Heb. 12.24 Chap. 8.6 1 Tim. 2.5 Chap. 3.17 Jesus Christ Mediator carries three Names which relate to three great discoveries and manifestations of God that are made to us in him 1. As he manifests the will of God he is called the word of God Rev. 19.13 2. As he manifests the nature and essence of God he is called the brightness of his glory Heb. 1.3 3. As he manifests the persons of the Godhead he is called the express Image of his Person I do not say these names relate only to these discoveries but mainly 1. The Person who is Mediator of the Covenant of grace is he whose name is called the word of God Rev. 19.13 and that both in relation to Creation and Redemption 1. He is the word by whom all things were made Eph. 3.9 Who hath creatred all things by Jesus Christ Heb. 1.2 By whom also he made the worlds Psal 33.6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth 2. He is the word in relation to the revealing all the will of God he is medium revelationis as well as reconciliationis There is a new discovery of God after the f●ll it s a discovery of him in Christ and this is a mystery which the Angels dive into with stupendious endeavours 1 Pet. 1.12 Which things the angels desire to look into Christ is the word of God that reveals this mystery Mal. 11.27 Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Joh. 1.18 No man hath seen God at any time the only begotten Son which is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him 3. He is the word of God in relation to the fulfilling all the word of God and accomplishing his will especially that which relateth to himself this Name is given him in the time of the seventh Trumpet Rev. 11.15 with 19.13 When all the promises and threatnings are to be fulfilled then he shall be acknowledged to be the word of God The ordering of all things according to the word of God and the accomplishment of all his will since the fall is committed to the administration of Christ Mediator Joh. 5.22 23 For the father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment to the Son that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father It was Christ that brought the flood upon the world it was he that went down to Sodom and destroyed it 2 Pet. 2.5 6 Jehovah did it Gen. 7. and 21. The same name is given to Christ It was Christ the Angel of the Covenant that appeared in the Bush and delivered his people out

waited on before he fulfil his promise What wonder that he will be waited on for the promise of Christ longer even till the fulness of time this being the greatest promise that ever he made to his people He will have the consolation of Israel waited for and redemption in Jerusalem looked for Luke 2.25 38. Before we proceed to speak of Christs unction and his qualifications for his Mediatorship refulting thence let us first make some use of this union of the two natures in Christ this great fundamental qualification of him for the Office of our Mediator that he is God and Man that for his due qualification he hath taken our flesh into his person therein to subsist In the union of the two natures in the Person of our Mediator 1. As it holds forth his condescending who stooped to be made manifest in the flesh 1. Let us admire and wonder at his love It was love that made him condescend it hath been and will be the admiration of Angels Luke 2.13 14 And suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men 1 Pet. 1.12 Which things the Angels desire to look into And how is it that we want affections and admirations Beside what I have before said these things wonderfully set out Christs love 1. That he would not entrust our Redemption to Angels but he would come himself and work it Heb. 1.5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time Thou art my Son to day have I begotten thee 2. That for the payment of our debt and in order to his being in a capacity to do so he would be in the same condition of clay with us a worm and not a man Psal 22.6 3. That he would not buy us at a base ransom but at a great price he would breathe out his life for us 1 Pet. 1.18 19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things but with the precious blood of Christ 4. That he would condescend thus singularly to love man to love him so as that he loved not any other creature that sinned against him Heb. 2.16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham 2. Let this raise up our hearts to thankfulness when we think of Christs Incarnation 1. This is the greatest demonstration of his readiness to save sinners the principal errand Christ had unto the world and in taking our nature was to save sinners Mat. 9.13 I am not come to call the righteous but sinn●rs to repentance You may therefore be assured of his readiness to receive such when they come unto him 2. This is the Fountain of all the promises of the Covenant of Grace the three greatest promises in all the Covenant flow from Christs Incarnation I will be your God I will give you my Son and I will give you my Spirit All these and all the rest too flow from this Fountain for neither the Father the Son nor the Spirit are given to us but through a Mediator and through his assuming of our nature Eph. 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ 2. As the union of the two natures in our Mediator holds out the exaltation of our nature Hence 1. Let us wonder what is man thus to be exalted the eighth Psalm is written for this end that we may wonder at mans exaltation not in Creation only but in Redemption as Vers 2 shews which is applied to Christ Mat. 21.16 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise how should this provoke to admiration that in our nature the fulness of the Godhead should dwell bodily Col. 2.9 2. Let us take Christs coming in the flesh and the exalting of our nature by the personal union with the Godhead for a pledg of the fulfilling of all other promises and granting all other mercies and salvation to us the root and body of the promises is come the branches will follow also 2 Cor. 1.20 For all the promises of God in him are yea and in him are Amen Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things This pledg was used by Isaiah as a confirmation from God and a ground of assurance for delivering the Church from Ashur Isa 7.11 14 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God ask it either in the depth or in the height above Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold A virgin shall conceive and bare a Son and shall call his name Immanuel And shall we distrust him for granting any other petition or deliverance who hath granted the main one 3. Let us take boldness to come to God through Christs flesh the great Courtier in Heaven is of our kindred take courage and improve the favour and friendship that our brother hath in Heaven Heb. 10.19 20 21 22 Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the vail that is to say his flesh And having an High-priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith 3. As the union of the two natures in our Mediator holds out his due qualification and fitness for his office 1. Behold in him a general fitness to receive each Person whose nature he beareth I say a fitness to receive them even all sorts of persons without exception there is none who needs him and cometh to him needs to distrust him Heb. 7.25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them 2. Let this encourage such as are afraid to draw near to God for union and reconciliation with him because of their estrangement from him through loss of his Image Lo he is willing to unite himself to thee and hath given assurance of it in his Son by vertue of his union with our nature Rom. 8.3 3. When we find difficulty to draw near to God or languishing in the life of our faith toward God Let us draw near to God the flesh of our our Mediator for influences and searn to come to God through the vail of his flesh Heb. 10.20 Jesus Christ is not strange he is near to us and his graces cannot be far off Rom. 10.6 8 Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach But it is with many and even with the most part as with the ten Tribes who pleaded kindred and blood to David yet

hath Gods heart and a mans heart 1. Christ is an affable Mediator in respect of his Father the offended party and no wonder for he dwelleth in his bosom Joh. 1.18 He doth kindly entertain and receive his propositions John 6.38 39 For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me And this is the fathers will that hath sent me c. 2. He is an affable Mediator in respect of the offending-party one who kindly and courteously receiveth and etertaineth the worst of sinners that ever employed him His carriage while he was here on earth did throughly bear witness of this before his death and after his resurrection whereby he gave a proof how he would carry to us when he should be in glory being then in the way and first step to it O how affable was he then Luke 24. John 20 and 21 Chapters And how affable is he still now when he is set down on the right hand of Majesty Joh. 16.25 26 27 The time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in Proverbs but I shall shew you plainly of the Father At that day ye shall ask in my name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you for the Father himself loveth you Heb. 2.17 That he might be a merciful High-priest in things pertaining to God And 5.2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself also is compassed with infirmities 2. He is affable to Justice and Mercy both these two Attributes in God which were to be eminently glorified in our Salvation 1. He is affable to Justice ready always to speak with Justice and to satisfie it with a Ransom and Price Heb. 12.24 And to Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel 2. He is affable to Mercy and Grace and ready always to satisfie Mercy by entreaties even for the thing which he hath bought Heb. 7.25 Seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them Yea he pleads in our name with both these Attributes in God by virtue of his satisfaction and intercession Heb. 9.24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us 4. A Mediator must be meek and long-suffering for the Unions-sake to bear with both the parties although they should smite him and be angry with him Christ is such a Mediator Matth. 21.5 Tell the daughter of Zion behold thy king cometh unto thee meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of an ass And 11.29 I am meek and lowly in heart Moses in his Mediation was a type of him Numb 12.3 Now the man Moses was very meek above all the men that were upon the face of the earth O so meek a Mediator as Christ is 1. He endured his Fathers anger and wrath for our sake and was smitten by him Isa 53.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all 2. He endured our anger also he was smitten by the other party by his own for whose sake he was content to be smitten of his Father Mat. 21.38 But when the husbandmen saw the Son they said among themselves This is the heir let us kill him and let us seize on his Inheritance Isa 53.3 He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not And when he was smitten by both parties at once and endured the wrath and displeasure of both at the same time yet he carried as a meek Mediator who did bear all for the Unions-sake that he might make peace Isa 53.7 He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth with 1 Pet 2.23 Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously He went through all the business with little clamour noise or complaint Matth. 12.17 18 19. 5. A Mediator must be merciful and tender-hearted one that hath bowels to pity the unreconciled state of the offender Christ is eminently such a Person 1. One who hath conjoyned in his person the heart of God and the heart of a man the infinite mercy of God and the kindly compassion of an experienced man who in his Humane nature hath felt our afflictions and temptations Heb. 2.17 18 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted And 5.2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity 2. A Person who in all his dealings hath shewed himself merciful and hath evidenced his compassionate disposition one that hath shewed mercy to all that ever came to God through him and upon all occasions that ever were given him to shew himself such John 6.37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out Matth. 15.22 And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cryed unto him saying Have mercy on me O Lord thou Son of David my daughter is grievously vexed with a Devil And 9.27 And when Jesus departed thence two blind men followed him crying and saying Thou Son of David have mercy on us One who shewed mercy not only upon the matter but even in the way and manner of his dealings with his people Matth. 12.20 A bruised reed shall he not break and smoaking flax shall he not quench till he send forth judgment into victory And 9.17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved One who carryeth compassionately unto and is pitiful even of the wilful refusers of his mercy Luke 19.41 And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it c. One who was not only pitiful in the days of his flesh but hath carryed also the same heart and bowels of a merciful and compassionate Mediator unto heaven with him Heb. 2.18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted And 4.15 For we have

the word but how for salvation that is in them but the believer finds something in them better than Salvation Joh. 6.68 Then Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life Psal 73.25 26 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there in none upon earth that I desire besides thee My heart and my flesh faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever 4. Since God giveth Christ for all the Covenant be you perswaded to take him for all and to make use of him for all 1 Cor. 1.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption 1. To fulfil all the promises of the Covenant to you for in him they are yea and in him they are all Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 2. To fulfil and perform the condition of the Covenant in you to determine your wills to believe Joh. 6.37 All that the father giveth me shall come to me Song 1.4 Draw me we will run after thee Joh. 12.32 And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me 3. To perform the duties in you which the Covenant requireth of you Phil. 4.13 Joh. 15.5 Eph 2.10 Vse 6. For comfort and encouragement to believers 1. Comfort your selves in the bargain which you have made upon this ground Christ is in the Covenant yea he is given for a Covenant of the people and therefore all shall be well and all shall be sure and firm Isa 22.23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he shall be for a glorious throne to his fathers house Zech. 10.4 Out of him came forth the corner out of him the nails Isa 3.10 Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings Comfort your selves 1. Against your being short of other men in worldly-injoyments Christ is given you for a Covenant but not unto them O wonder at it and be comforted with him who said Lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self to us and not unto the world You can own Christ they cannot Psal 67.6 And God even our own God shall bless us Psal 73.26 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever 2. Comfort your selves against all snares dangers tentations and storms that can blow against you in your way to heaven Christ is in the Covenant and that shall be your safety as the disciples were safe at sea against greatest tempests because Christ was in the ship with them Mat. 8.13 to 28. Consider he is imbarked with you and shall bring you to land 1 Joh. 4.4 Ye are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world 3. Comfort your selves against all your wants and weaknesses and all the miseries of your present condition Christ is given for a Covenant of the people and though you be foolish he is wise 1 Cor. 1.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom Though you be weak he is strong Psal 89.19 I have laid help upon one that is mighty Mat. 12.29 Or else how can one enter into a strong mans house and spoil his goods except he first bind the strong man and then he will spoil his house Though you be faithless he is faithful 2 Tim. 2.13 If we believe not yet he abideth faithful he cannot deny himself Though you be nothing Christ is all Col. 3.11 Whatsoever is wanting in you is abounding in him and if you abuse not the grace of Christ by turning it into wantonness it is all one if it be betwixt you it s as good and much better it be in him than in you for if he be given to you all comes with him 1 Cor. 1.30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption 2. 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