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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

it Christ did not intrude himselfe into this office He glorified not himselfe to be made an High Priest a Mediatour Heb. 5.5 He did not run before he was sent So much we may learn from those Titles given to him that of an Angel or Messenger Mal. 3.1 The Messenger of the Covenant That other of an Apostle Heb. 3.1 The Apostle and High Priest of our Profession Each importing a Mission a Sending Christ did not undertake this office without the warrant of a lawfull Calling Let it be taken notice of by all those who shall undertake any publick Office or Service in the Church of God Note Let them also see that they do not herein glorifie themselves that they have a calling a lawfull and warrantable calling to it not running before they are sent This would not Jesus Christ do He would not undertake the Work of Reconciliation but upon a lawfull Call Let not any without the like warrant undertake the Ministery of Reconciliation Such is the publick preaching of the Gospel the dispensing of the Word of Reconciliation 2 Cor. 5.18 19. Concerning which the Apostle propounds this Question Rom. 10.15 How shall they preach except they be sent A Question which my selfe not being able I shall leave to them to answer who stand guilty of that presumption I pass on Jesus Christ was called to this Office But By whom was he called How was he called When was he called to it A threefold Enquiry the Resolving whereof will contribute not a little to the clearing and illustrating of this Branch of the point in hand touching the Calling of Question 1 Christ to this Office of Mediatorship By whom was he called Quest 1. By whom was he called Ans I answer By God himselfe Answer By God himselfe No man taketh this Honour unto himselfe saith the Apostle speaking of the Priestly Office but he that is called of God as Aaron was Heb. 5.4 This he speaketh de jure shewing not what men sometimes do but what they ought to do viz. Not take upon them a Ministeriall Office to deal betwixt God and his People unlesse they be called of God either Immediately or Mediately This did not Jesus Christ do His Office of Mediatorship he received it immediately from God himselfe He was called of God as High Priest after the Order of Melchizedech Heb. 5.10 And from what other hand should he receive it None could appoint a Mediator but God Who should appoint a Mediatour to deal betwixt God and man but God himself As for man as he was the person offending so he was far from seeking of Reconciliation having sinned against his God he flieth from his presence to hide himselfe Nay such was the corruption of depraved nature Gen. 35.3 8. that it was ready bent to stand it out against God to hold out the quarrel to maintain this enmity so far was man from seeking Reconciliation But had he sought it what Mediator should he have sought for This was that which Job in his passion complaineth of Job 9.33 Neither is there any Days-man or Umpire betwixt us that might lay his hand upon us both None to judge betwixt him his God Amongst the creatures there was none in Earth or Heaven that durst have undertaken this cause to interpose and come betwixt the Creature and the Creatour If one man sin against another the Judge shall judge it but if a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2.25 This was God's own work first to find out a way means of Reconciliation then to find out a fitting person to undertake that Work then to put him upon that undertaking This was the Lord's own doing And well may it be marvellous in our eyes Never such a Demonstration of Love A Demonstration of Divine Love as this That when man had offended his God broke Covenant with him and turned enemie to him standing out in actual rebellion against him that God should then seek peace with him offer conditions of peace unto him And for that purpose should appoint a Mediatour and call his own Son to that Office to undertake the work of Reconciliation what a gracious condescention was this Herein let us both admire and adore this matchlesse and unparalell'd love that God was thus in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe A clear Intimation so let us conceive of it of a gracious purpose An Intimation of a gracious purpose in God towards all those whose hearts he inclineth to accept of this Reconciliation Surely had not he had a good will towards them he would never have called forth his Son to this Service And withall giving a full assurance to them of a gracious acceptance Assurance of a gracious acceptance of whatever this Mediatour hath done and performed on their behalfs in as much as he was thereunto called by God himselfe But I do but glance at these not unusefull Meditations by the way Thus you see By whom Christ was called to this Office viz. By God By God his Father Christ was called by God his Father So the Spirit of God in Scripture more peculiarly attributes this work unto him to the first Person in the blessed Trinity Him hath God the Father sealed John 6.27 It pleased the Father c. By him to reconcile all things to himselfe Col. 1.19 where though the word Father be not expressed in the Originall yet it may not unfitly be supplied So in those places where it is said God gave his Son John 3.16 God sent forth his Son Gal. 4.4 The word God is to be understood Relatively and Personally as pointing at God the Father not that the two other Persons are thereby excluded from any concurrence in this work not so as it is in all other Actions and Operations ad extrà as they are called works done out of themselves they are Indivisa Common to all the three Persons so is it here The calling of Christ to this office of Mediatorship it was the concurrent Act of all the three Persons Father Son and Holy Ghost Onely it is Attributed to the Father for Orders sake in as much as he being the first is the beginning as of every operation so of this But to go on Christ was called to this office by God his Father Quest 2. But How was he called to it There Question 2 is the second Question How Christ was called to be a Mediator Answer To which I Answer 1. He was Designed to it 2ly He was Furnished for it 3ly He was invested in it In these three consists the manner of this his Ans 1 calling Hee was designed to it 1. He was designed elected ordained by God his Father unto this office Thence called his Elect one Isaiah 42.1 Behold my servant whom I uphold mine Elect in whom my soul delighteth It is spoken of Christ as Mediator who was Elected and designed by God his Father unto that

Christ must partake of both Natures And it was very requisite that he should be so And that for the due qualifying of him for the Office and Work of his Mediatorship That he might be a meet and fitting Person to deale betwixt God and men That was his Office that was his Work to deal with God for man and to deal for God with man Now that he might be fit for both these transactions for both parts of this Office he must partake of both Natures That he might effectually deal with God for man he must be God If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him saith Eli to his sons 1 Sam. 2.25 And that he might deale from God and for God with man he must be man When God spake unto Israel at Mount Sinai at the giving of the Law though I conceive it was not the immediate voice of God himselfe Lex non data est per Filium sed per unum è praecipuis Angelis Dei nomine loqueniem Grotius Annot in Hebr. 2.2 but of some principall Angel whose Ministry he there made use of in that promulgation as may not obscurely be collected from those known Texts Heb. 2.2 Acts 7.38 yet the people were not able to abide that Voice or Presence And therefore they desire an Internuncius a man like themselves who might be as a Mediatour to go betwixt God and them Exod. 20.18 19. For this Reason amongst others it was requisite that the Messiah Jesus Christ should be both God and man that he might be a meet Mediatour to deal betwixt God and man Thus have I passed over this first Branch of the Point in hand shewing you how Christ is a Mediatour in respect of his Person A middle Person betwixt God and man participating of both Natures And here is that Mediatio substantialis his substantiall Mediation 2 Christ a Mediator in respect of his Office dealing betwixt God Man Passe we now to the second Branch to the Energeticall Operative Mediation where we shall see how Christ is said to be a Mediatour in respect of his Office performing the work of a Mediatour being in himselfe a Middle Person he dealeth betwixt God and man Quest Dealeth betwixt them How The great Transaction of Christ in what way what is that Transaction what is the businesse wherein and whereabout the Lord Christ dealeth betwixt God and man Answ To this take the Answer in one word It is the businesse of Reconciliation Reconciliation This was the great Negotiation about which the Son of God leaving the bosome of the Father came into the world took the nature of man upon him and undertook the office of a Mediatour All for the reconciling of God and man So the Scripture holdeth it forth God was in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe 2 Cor. 5.19 It pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himselfe Col. 1.19 This was the great designe of God in giving his Son and of his Son in giving himself that he might be a Mediatour of Reconciliation betwixt God and man Reconciliation Take we hold of the skirts of that word Reconciliation importing three things We may learn that from it which may conduce not a little to our present purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall fitly rendred Reconciliation Which is the restoring of former love amity agreement betwixt two or more disagreeing parties This is properly Reconciliation importing as you may take notice these three particulars 1. A Foregoing Amity and friendship 2. A Subsequent Breach and disagreement 3. A making up of that Breach and a restoring of that former Amity again All fitly appliable to the point we have now in hand Christ's reconciling of God and man imports all these three particulars 1. A precedent Amity and friendship Such there was betwixt God and man at first 1. Precedent Amitie God having made man after his own Image like unto himselfe there was a blessed unity and agreement betwixt them they were at One. Man was God's Favourite greatly beloved of him highly in grace and favour with him And God was again highly honoured and greatly beloved of man Thus was there a near Vnion a sweet and blessed Communion betwixt them Such was the state of man in his Creation 2. A subsequent breach 2. A Subsequent Breach whereby that Vnion and Communion were dissolved and a naturall Enmity introduced So came it to passe by Satan's mediation his interposing betwixt God and man his soliciting and enticing man to sin against the Law of his Creatour and so to break the Covenant betwixt God and him Hereupon followed a mutuall alienation God was estranged from man and man was estranged from God Nay a mutual Enmity You that were sometimes alienated and enemies saith Paul to his Colossians speaking of their estate before conversion Col. 1.21 When we were enemies we were reconciled to God saith the same Apostle to his Romans Rom. 5.10 Such a mutuall Enmity there is betwixt God and man God for sin hating man and man through sin hating God Such is the estate of man by Degeneration and Corruption A state of Enmity 3. And hereupon it was which is the third particular that Jesus Christ took upon him the Office of a Mediatour 3. A restoring of Amity that he might dissolve and destroy this ground-work of the Divell as Saint John speaketh 1 John 3.8 That he might slay this Enmity make up this Breach compose this difference restore that former love and amity That he might make reconciliation betwixt God and man A Mutuall Reconciliation Reconcillation by Christ mutuall Such was the Enmity which Satan had made A mutuall Enmity And such was the Reconciliation which Christ undertaketh A Mutuall Reconciliation To reconcile God unto man man unto God Which let it be taken notice of by-the way Socinian errour refuted And that against the Socinians and some other of the times who would have this Reconciliation to be onely on one part viz. on Man's part to God not of God's to man To this end saith one of them Christ came into the world not to reconcile God to man but man to God Paul Hobson's Serm. Christ the effect not the cause of the love of God pag. 47. As for God he was reconciled to his Elect from Eternity So as he not onely bare them no ill will but he bare them good will loving them and intending good unto them What then needeth any Reconciliation of his part The Reconciliation spoken of in Scripture say they is onely on Man's part When we were enemies we were reconciled to God Rom. 5.10 not God to us God was in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe 2 Cor. 5.19 not himselfe to the world But this opinion of theirs is justly censured and condemned by others as erroneous and hereticall Testimony to the Truth by the London Ministers p. 9. having no ground for it but

undertaking to answer and make satisfaction unto the Justice of God for them And in this respect it is chiefly and principally as Bellarmine and others rightly observe upon the Text that he is here called by our Apostle a Mediator In this respect principally called a Mediatour in the Text. Neque apud ineruditos tantùm sed apud eos qui elegantiùs loquuntur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicitur is qui placat aliquem Grot ' de Satisfact cap. 8. Object Here is no mention of Gods wrath or displeasure A Mediator betwixt God and men id est One that interposeth himselfe betwixt the wrath of God and them undertaking to satisfie their debts and so to reconcile them unto God Thus the word in the Text as Grotius noteth may fitly be rendred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plaactor One that pacifieth and appeaseth another by giving satisfaction and contentment to him And in this sense it is here applyed unto Christ Obj. Not so saith Socinus and his followers The word here signifieth no more then what it doth elsewhere Interpres Internuncius an Interpreter an Intermessenger betwixt God and Man Not a Peace-maker No here is not a word saith he concerning any wrath or displeasure of God against sin or sinners that might induce us to make such a construction of the Apostles meaning Ans But to this Pareus Answ Pareus in Heb. 8.6 returns him an Answer It is not to be conceived that what ever belongs to such or such a subject should be mentioned where-ever that subject is touched upon True the Apostle maketh no mention of Gods wrath against sin and sinners in this place This we finde elsewhere But elsewhere he doth sufficiently abundantly Romans 1.18 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse of men Cap. 5.9 Being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Such is the state and condition of all men by nature They are all alike Children of wrath Ephes 2.2 Being out of Christ not beleeving on him the wrath of God abideth on them John 3. last A truth so sufficiently known so frequently inculcated by himself and others as that there was no need why the Apostle should here make any mention of it before he call Christ a Mediator But if this satisfie not look but a little after and there shall we finde what is by the Adversarie desired Who gave himselfe a Ransome for us In which words as Bellarmine well noteth upon it the Apostle assigneth the cause and Reason of what he had said plainly shewing in what respect it was principally that he called Christ a Mediatour viz. In as much as hee gave himselfe a Ransome unto God his Father making satisfaction for the sinnes of his people Objection Satisfaction But Object No mention of Christs satisfaction in Scripture Christoph Ostorodius contra Purgationem peccatorum Ar gum 1. Answer Pareus ad Rō 9. Dubio 12. Though not the word yet the thing is Grot. de Satisf cap. 7. in initio where doe wee meet with this word in Scripture thus applyed unto Christ and his Mediatorship So some demand of us Answ To whom Pareus and others soon return Answer that though the word be not found yet the thing is being set forth in other expressions which are equipollent and equivalent And this it is that our Adversaries contend against as Socinus acknowledgeth it not the word but the thing And this it is that we must with earnestnesse contend for against them for this truth of God is a part of that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints and a principall part of it a foundation-stone a principle of Christian Religion the maine hinge upon which the whole worke of our salvation turneth Take away this the satisfaction of Christ and what sure foundation shall our faith rest upon If this foundation bee destroyed then what shall the righteous doe They must then goe seeke for another way of Justification then by faith in the merits of Christ And so seek for a new way to heaven which none of their forefathers ever yet found Let me therefore take up a little time for the asserting and vindicating of this truth of God against the Adversaries and Opposers of it Wherein my aime shall be to deal as little as may be in a Polemicall controversall way in arguing and disputing the case with them but rather in demonstrating it against them by laying this foundation as sure as I can that so you may with more assured confidence adventure your soules upon it Christ is said to be a Mediator as a Surety undertaking and making satisfaction unto God for the sins of his people That he is so Christs Satisfaction evinced by Scripture Testimonies Scripture is clear to those who will but look upon it without prejudice To go about to call in all those Texts that speak to this purpose would prove a long if not a tedious work I shal single out some of them which I conceive to give in the clearest and most convincing evidence And here I shall begin with the old Testament Old Testament where I shall in the first place have recourse unto that clear Prophecie concerning Christ then which all the old Testament affords not a clearer which wee meet with Isaiah 53. Isa 53. Arg. 1. There shall we finde a mutuall compact and agreement betwixt the Father and the Sonne about this way of Reconciliation viz. by way of satisfaction This the Father imposeth And this the Sonne submits to The Father imposeth it by charging the sinns of his Elect upon him So you have it verse 6. Ver. 6. The LORD laid on him the iniquities of us all Not the sinns themselves not the evill in them or fault of them but the guilt and penalty belonging to them This GOD laid upon his Son charging it upon him as a Creditor chargeth a debt upon the surety requiring satisfaction from him Or as the margin readeth it according to the Originall He shall make the iniquity of us all to meet on him Even as many debts of severall persons are charged upon one common surety and so all meet together upon his head Thus did the sins of all God's Elect or all true believers for of such and onely such he there speaks as Diodate expounds it such as having union with Christ have a true spirituall Communion amongst themselves they all meet together upon the head of their common surety the Lord Christ Even as the sins of Priests and people met together upon the head of the Sacrifice being layed upon it by the Priests who to that end laid their hands upon the head of it as you may read Exod. 29.10 15 19. by that Ceremony putting and laying their own sins and the sins of the people upon the head of that Sacrifice which was to be offered up for them Even thus saith the Prophet did God the Father lay the sins of his

the State which he negotiates for And so doth Jesus Christ of all his Elect. For their sakes it was that he sanctified himselfe when he was upon Earth John 17.19 In all the services which here he undertook he had an eye unto them seeking their welfare more then his own And the like he doth now in Heaven He sitteth at the right hand of God as their Agents interceding for them This was shadowed out in the High Priest under the Law who when he went into the Holy Place there to appear before the Lord he had the Names of the twelve Tribes of Israel ingraven in stones first upon his Humerall then upon his Pectorall bearing them both upon his shoulders and upon his heart as you shall finde it Exod. 28.12 29. in both shewing that he entred into that place not onely or principally in his own behalfe but in the behalfe of the Tribes whom he represented and presented before the Lord to the end that they might be had in continuall remembrance with him as the 29th verse there explains it A lively Type of Christ's Intercession who being entred into the Heavens he there appeareth before God in the behalfe of his Elect whom he beareth as it were upon his shoulders and upon his Heart sustaining their persons and presenting their condition unto God his Father so causing them to be had in perpetuall memory And thus presenting them unto God he procureth their welfare by commending their estate and condition unto God Expressing his constant will and desire for their good that they may be delivered from evill that they may enjoy all the benefits whch he hath merited for them by his death And thus is he said most properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to intercede for them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significat Interpellationem quae fit cum postulatione Estius Com. in Heb. 7.25 viz. by making requests on their behalfe This saith Estius is the most proper signification of the word therein following Augustine with whom the Apostles Interpellare is the same with Postulare To Intercede is to make Request So our former Translation renders it in that place fore-named Rom. 8.34 Estius in Rom. 8.34 Heb. 7.25 Who also maketh request for us This Jesus Christ doth though not vivâ voce Orally and vocally by word of mouth as the same Jesuit would willingly have it drawing in Thomas though without any just ground to be of the same mind with him yet really and effectually viz. by the presenting of his merit and expressing his will and desire on the behalfe of his people in such a way as is congruous and sutable to that glorified state Thus doth he intercede make requests for them thereby impetrating and obtaining for them such things as they stand in need of and he hath merited for them As viz. that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Paul speaketh of Phil. 1.19 a continuall supply of the Spirit whereby they are strengthened and assisted against all Tentations comforted in all Tribulations delivered from every evill work inabled to the performance of every duty and finally preserved unto his heavenly Kingdom All which are fruits of Christ's Intercession though merited by his death upon the Cross yet impetrated and obtained by his Intercession in Heaven And thus we see how Jesus Christ this our Mediatour appeareth before God on the behalfe of his people as an Agent conserving their Peace maintaining their Intercourse and Communion with God reconciling their emergent differences and procuring their welfare Secondly He appeareth before God as an Advocate 2 As an Advocate being So Saint John calleth him 1 John 2.1 If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall A word generally and properly signifying any one that is invited and called in to the help and assistance of another That is also the proper meaning of the word Advocatus In Scripture we find it attributed sometimes to the Holy Ghost and sometimes to Christ To the Holy Ghost Then it is fitly rendred a Comforter So you find it Joh. 14.16 15.26 16.17 In this place and only this of St John it is attributed unto Christ and here it is most fitly rendred an Advocate An Advocate we know what he is One that is of counsel with another and pleadeth his cause in open Court at the Bar of Justice And such an Advocate is Jesus Christ unto his people 1. He is of Counsel with them 2 of Counsell with them That is one of the Titles given to him by the Prophet Isai Isai 9.6 Wounderfull Counsellour So Christ is to his people counselling them in the midst of all their straits and difficulties which he doth by his Word and Spirit 2. And as of Counsell with them so pleading for them 2 Pleading for them This he doth in the High Court of Heaven at the Bar of God's Justice In which respect he may be fitly said to appear for them Even as an Advocate appeareth for his Client and pleadeth his cause answering all Accusations and Allegations which are made against him vindicating his right So doth the Lord Jesus appearing before God he pleadeth the cause of his people answering what ever Accusations or Allegations are brought in against them by Satan or their own Consciences vindicating their right to Heaven and Eternall Life All which he doth by the continuall presentation of his Merit unto God his Father the Merit of his Death and Passion whereby he hath made a full satisfaction unto his Justice for all their sins This it is which pleadeth for them even the Blood of Christ which as the Authour to the Hebrews saith of it Heb. 12.24 Speaketh better things then the Blood of Abel Abel's blood pleaded against Cain crying for vengeance Gen. 4.10 But the Blood of Christ pleadeth for his Elect crying for mercy pardon for them even for all that shall believe on him For them the Blood of Christ speaketh a good word pleading the generall plea a Plenè satisfecit a full satisfaction made unto the Justice of God for them So as by this meanes they are freed from the Accusation and Condemnation of the Law wherunto otherwise every day by reason of their renewed transgressions they become obnoxious This is the ground of Paul's Triumph Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen who is he that condemneth c It is Christ that dyed yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh Intercession for us This hee doth as an Advocate there pleading the cause of his Elect 3ly As he is an Advocate so also an Attourney 3. As an Attourny An Attourney wee know what in Law it means One that is authorized to appear for or to act in the name of another And such an Attourney is the Lord Jesus on the behalf of his elect people 1. Appearing before