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A77515	Two treatises the one, handling the doctrine of Christ's mediatorship : wherein the great Gospel-mystery of reconciliation betwixt God and man is opened, vindicated, and applyed. The other, of mystical implantation : wherein the Christian's union and communion with, and conformity to Jesus Christ, both in his death and resurrection, is opened, and applyed. / As they were lately delivered to the church of God at Great Yarmouth, by John Brinsley, minister of the Gospel, and preacher to that incorporation.	Brinsley, John, 1600-1665.; Ashe, Simeon, d. 1662.	1652 (1652)	Wing B4737; Thomason E1223_1; ESTC R22919	314,532	569

our Mediator a Faithfull Mercifull Potent Permaneant Present Mediatour what remains then but that having so many and great Incouragements we make use of his mediation coming unto God by him And that Boldly viz. with an awfull boldnesse Thus doe Suppliants come unto their Prince Come boldly to God through him making use of his Mediation having some speciall favourite to their freind standing at his right hand they come with an awfull confidence awed with the Majesty of the Prince but confident in the presence and prevalency of that their Mediatour And thus come wee to the throne of grace in an holy aw of the Majesty of God but with an holy confidence of this our Mediator Thus make we use of his mediation And this doe wee both for our selves and others 1 For our selves For our selves begging renewed pardons for our daily sinnes suing them out in his name presenting our daily wants begging that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that continuall supply of the Spirit with all other blessings requisite and convenient the dispencing wherof is committed to this our Mediator Thus make suit for ourselves 2. For others And in like manner for others For the Church of God for all who desire or stand in need of our prayers This the Apostle presseth in the entrance into this chapter I exhort that supplications prayers intercessions c. be made for all men And this he exciteth to upon this ground among others For there is one Mediatour betwixt God and men the Man Christ Jesus one who Intercedeth in the behalfe of such Intercessours ready to receive and present their Petitions on whose behalfe soever presented unto God his Father And thus have I at length through a gracious conduct finished the former of these conclusions which informs us that Jesus Christ is Mediator betwixt God and men Come we now to the later in the handling whereof I shall be very concise having already dispatched what I aimed at when I took this Text in hand Doctrine 2. The Man Christ Jesus is the onely Mediator betwixt God and men Christ the only Mediator So much is clearly insinuated by the Apostle here in the Text There is One Mediator One and but one So are we to understand this Particle here Calvin ad loc Exclusively As in the former part of the verse There is one God One and but One. So in this later There is one Mediator one and but one Pointing out Jesus Christ but excluding all others from sharing with him in this office So it is looked upon not onely by Protestant but also by some of the most ingenuous of the Romish Expositours Estius ad loc And thus it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is One and onely one Mediator betwixt God and men the man Christ Jesus Typified by Moses and Aaron Exod. 14.2 So much was not obscurely shadowed out in that pair of typical mediators under the law Moses and Aaron At the giving of the Law Moses was alone with God in the mount The Prohibition was expresse No man shall come up with thee Ex. 34.2 3. Then there was no Mediator betwixt God and the people but he The Law was given 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the hand of a Mediatour viz. Moses Gal. 3.19 In like manner Aaron and the High Priests successively after him when they went into the holy Place to present the blood of the Sacrifice before the Lord for the errours of the people which they did once every year they went in alone Heb. 9.7 Into the second tabernacle went the High Priest alone Herein both shadowing out this great and Archetypall Mediatour the Lord Jesus who is the alone Mediatour betwixt God and men A truth sufficiently confirmed by Christ's own attestation John 14.6 Confirmed by Scripture I am the way saith he the truth and the life Jesus Christ is the way whereby men come unto God to have union and communion with him here and hereafter So he is and that not onely Exemplariter as Grotius blancheth it Grotius Com. in John 14.6 in regard of his Example by the imitation whereof men come to heaven but also Efficienter in regard of his Mediation his Satisfaction and Intercession He it is who hath laid out unto us and paved for us a new and living way to God by his own meritorious blood Heb. 10.20 which he keepeth open by his continued Intercession Thus is he the way and the onely way So it followeth No man cometh unto the Father but by me John 14.6 Into the Holy of holies there was but one way no more is there into the Heaven of Heavens And that is by Jesus Christ his Mediation his Satisfaction his Advocation To the same purpose is that other Text John 10.9 where our Saviour seteth forth the same Truth though under a different similitude I am the door by me if any man enter he shall be saved Men enter into a house by the door and thus do we enter into Heaven by our prayers now and persons hereafter even by and through Jesus Christ and only through him who is the alone Mediatour betwixt God and man By Arguments That he is so may further be confirmed by divers Arguments which evince this Truth Arg. 1. This Mediatour must be a middle person betwixt both Arg. 1. The Mediatour betwixt God and men must be a middle Person having an interest in both parties partaking of both natures He must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both God and man otherwise he cannot be capable of doing and performing all mutuall offices betwixt them But this is proper and peculiar onely to Jesus Christ Arg. 2. He must be a righteous person Aug. l. 2. contra Epist Parmen cap. 8. Arg. 2. The Mediatour betwixt God and men must be an innocent a righteous person one that needeth none to mediate or intercede for himselfe So Augustine hath rightly determined it Pro quo nullus interpellat sed ipse pro omnibus hic unus verúsque Mediator est He that intercedes for all but needeth none to intercede for him he is the true and onely Mediatour Now such a one is Jesus Christ and onely he As for all other of the Sons of men being sinners by nature they stand in need of a Mediatour to reconcile them to God and to intercede for them Only Christ is such an High Priest as the Apostle speaketh of Heb. 7.25 One that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy harmless undefiled separated from sinners And therefore the only true Mediator Arg. 3. Christ onely able to perform the Office of a Mediatour Arg. 3. Again He onely is able to perform the office do the work of a Mediatour betwixt God and men None able to satisfie the Justice of God but he none able to pay an infinite price for an infinite guilt to an infinite Justice but that infinite person who being man was more then man God and man None

of the Gentiles to the participation of the Covenant of grace to have union and communion with Christ and his Church he sets it forth under this Metaphor of ingrafting using the word no lesse then six severall times in that Chapter And indeed of all Metaphors expressing and setting forth unto us the spirituall union and communion betwixt Christ and the believer I know none more apt more elegant more lively then this And therefore I shall spend a little more time then ordinary in the prosecution of it The Similitude prosecuted Christ and the believer are grafted together as the graft and the stock In prosecuting hereof I shal shew you these four particulars 1. Who is the Stock 2. Who the Branches 3. How these two come to be ingrafted the one into the other 4. And lastly The Resemblances betwixt the naturall and spirituall Implantation In the three former I shall be brief intending to insist more largely upon the last 1. The Stock Christ 1. In the naturall Implantation there must be a Stock to graft upon So in this spirituall Implantation here is a Stock Who that is the Text it self points it out viz. Christ himself We are planted together with him Elsewhere our Saviour himself giveth it us more expresly John 15.5 I am the Vine He is the Stock Christ according to his two natures putteth on a two-fold Relation and is sometimes called a Branch sometimes a Stock or Root the former we meet with Isai 11.1 where Christ is called a Rod or Branch There shall come forth a Rod out of the Stem of Jesse and a Branch shall grow out of his Roots Jesse or Ishai the father of David he was that Root Christ according to his humanity he was a Rod a Branch springing from the Root So some conceive him elsewhere called Isai 4.2 In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautifull and glorious Which most take as spoken of Christ though others more genuinely as I conceive understand it of the Remnant of Israel escaping out of Babylonish Captivity as the later part of the verse seemeth to expound it More plainly Zach. 3.8 Behold I will bring forth my Servant the Branch A Text clearly pointing at Christ The later we meet with Isai 11.10 There shall be a Root of Jesse There the Relation is changed He that was a Branch before ver 1. is here called the Root Christ both Root and Branch to the same Stock According to that Rev. 22.16 I am the Root and Off-spring of David The Off-spring of David according to his Humanity as man The Root of David according to his Divinity as God Quest But how is he the Root or Stock into which believers are implanted whether as God or man Ans I answer as both as Mediatour as God and man So is he the Stock 2. 2. The Branches Believers From whence we may collect in answer to the second Proposall Who are the Branches viz. All true believers who are given to him not only by Election but also by effectuall Vocation given actually to believe on him I am the Vine ye are the Branches saith our Saviour to his Disciples in the place fore-named John 15.5 Such are all true believers All plants of God's planting Such as be planted in the House of the Lord Psal 92.13 All plants ingrafted into this Stock 3. And how come they so to be 3. How they come to be implanted There is the 3d particular In answer whereunto following the trail of the Metaphor I might here shew you both who is the Planter what are the Instruments 1. The Planter 1. The Planter here is two-fold Principall Ministeriall 1. Principall God 1. The Principall is God himselfe My Father is the Husbandman saith our Saviour Joh. 15.1 2. Ministeriall the Ministers of the Gospel 2. Ministerial the Ministers of the Gospel who are God's Servants his Labourers in this plantation We are labourers together with God saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 3.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Labourers in this planting work The Minister of God is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that planteth I have planted saith Paul ver 6. 2. The Instrument 2. The Instrument double in this work is two-fold according to a two-fold Implantation There is an outward and visible and there is an inward and invisible Implantation And each of these hath its severall Instrument 1. In the former of them the Instrument made use of is that which the Apostle himself here points at viz. the Sacrament of Baptisme 1. Of the outward Implantation the Sacrament of Baptisme Christians are baptized into Christ ver 3. and so ingrafted into him The one answers the other So they are outwardly visibly And thus are little children Infants like young and tender twigs they are grafted into this Stock into Christ by an outward visible Implantation Ingrafted into him Sacramentally 2. Besides this there is an inward spirituall invisible Implantation 2. Of the inward Implantation and ingrafting into Christ And in effecting of this there are two sorts of Instruments The one Mediate the other Immediate 1. The Mediate instrument is the word 1. Mediate the word in the Ministry of it Paul planteth but how By preaching of the Gospel The spirit of the Lord is upon me saith the Prophet Isaiah speaking of Christ Isaiah 61. verse 1. and hath sent me to preach glad tidings viz. to preach the Gospel as Saint Luke explaines it Luk. 4.18 And to what end why amongst other that those which mourne in Sion poor penitent sinners might be called Trees of Righteousnesse the planting of the Lord. So you have it verse 3. This is the ordinary Instrument which God is pleased to make use of in this planting work viz. the preaching of the Word the Law and Gospell By the one he cutteth men off from the old stock the stock of Nature By the other he putteth them into this new stock grafteth them into Christ as I shall show you more fully anon Here is the Mediate Instrument 2. The Immediate on Gods part is his Spirit 2 Immediate viz. the Spirit the Faith which giveth efficacie to both the aforesaid Ordinances Baptisme and the Word making them effectuall for those ends to which they are ordained On mans part faith Faith applying Christ unto the soul and the soul unto Christ Thus in the naturall ingrafting there is a mutuall application of the Graft to the stock and the Stock to the Graft The like mutuall application is there betwixt Christ and the beleever The beleever apprehendeth Christ Phil. 3.12 and is apprehended of him This on mans part is done by faith laying hold upon him applying him with all his merits and benefits unto himself and giving up himself wholly unto him Herby Christ and the beleever are made one the one ingrafted into the other Thus have I briefly dispatched the three first particulars which make way for the fourth and last