.J•• 84 Power communicated unto tlJe Office of Cl;rifl for \vhatever they profefs, when they come really to examine themfelves they will find them of no ufe unto them but that all things between God and their fouls are fiatecl on Natural Light and common Prefumptions. - cHAp: VII. Power and Efficacy comn}unicateted unta t!Je .Office of Chrift for the Sal1Jation ofthe Church from his Perfon. I T is by the Exercife a. ud Difcharge ofthe Of}ice qfChrifl as theKing, Priefl and Prophet of the Church, that we are redeemed, SanCtified and faved. Thereby cloth he immedi. ately communicate all Gofpel Benefits unto us,gives us ~n Ac– cefs unto God here by Grace, and in Gl~ry hereafter. For he faves us as he is theMediator between God and Man'. But hereon an Enquiry may be inade, whence it is that the Afls and Duties of this Of}iceofChriil: in their exercife and dif. charge, fhould have fuch a Power and El/icacy with -refpecr unto their Supernatural and Eternal Ends. For the things which depend upon them, which are effi£ted by them, are all the principal means of the Glory of God, and the only . concernments of the fouls of men. And this I fay is his .holy Myfleri~us Perfon; from thence alone all Power and Efficacy is derived and transfufed into his Offices, and into all that is due in the difcharge of them. . · A Truth this is of that Importance, that the Declaration and Demonil:ration of it, ·is the principal defigrr of .one en· tire Book of the holy Scriptures, namely, of the Epiflle of Paul the Apoflle unto the He!Jrews. That the glorious Ex– ceifency of the Perfon of Chrifr cloth enable him in the dif- . charge-
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