Book IV. 177 SECT. Ill. Of Chrift's Propheti~al office, 1 > I . He Titles of Chril\ in refp~Cl: of his Prophetical office were thefe : r.. ~ortie; T times he is called Doctor, or Mafler, Be ye not called M afters, for one 16' your M h , }11•(1 ven Chrifi, The word is K~Sny•iTH<, which fignifies aDoCl:or, Moderator, att ·'3· 10 ' tea~hi~;g.;hfler ,a guide of the way. 2. So'meti~Jes be is called a Law-giver, There is Jamel 4 • u~ one £,ov-givcr, who is able to [ave and to deft~oy; the. Apo!lle fpeaks of the Internal <>overnment of the ConfCJence, m wluch cafe the Lord ts our Judge, The Ltrrd" owHa. 33 ,.,, Law-giver, 1 h, J.o>·d ;, our King. he wjll fave tu: we .muft hear n_o voi~e i~ o~rConfciences bUt Gods. no Doc'hme tn the Church but Chrtfls ; no offices, mftltuttons, and worO•ip mull be allowed, but fucj.J as he bath .appointed; and therefore wh~n men hrouobt in forreign dot'\nnes, It Isft.d that they dtd not hold the head. 3· Someumeshe Col."· 19. is called a Councdlor, .and h~ w1me Jhall becalled Wonderful, Cotmcellor; counfel;, mine ~:~~·t," , 4 , ,.,d fesmd wifdom, fatth Chn ll, J '"" 1mderjlandmg, and I have j/rength. Chnll: by (;is Office counfels men how to fly fin, and how to pleafe God, and how ro efcape Hell, . and how to be fav(J, 4· Sometimes he is called the Apoflle of our profeffion, Where- Heb. 3; x! fol'e holy bretbmr, pa,.tak_e;s of the Heavtnly c~lling, confider the Apoftle, and high Priejf of o11r pcofejfion, Chrijf Jcfu<. God fenr. h1.m as an E;mbalTadour ~o make kA6wn h1s will . he came uot unlent, the very word t:nports a m•ffion, a fendmg, How jhaflthey 11.0m. to. •>· prca/hexcept they be (ent? !er all thofe who run before they be fent, take notice of this, for this would not Cln·ill: do ; he was fent , he was the ApolHe of our profeffion. 5· Sometimes,he is called the Angel of the Covenant, even the Angel of the Covmant Mal. 3·1< who., ye delight in. Chnfl was the publt01er of the G~fpel-Covenant, he de~lared the grarious purpofe of God towards the Elect held forth mthe Covenant ; and 111 thiS refpe8: h~ is called a Prophet, A EfsJ . 22. and theProphet, John7. 40. and that Prophet.John6,r 4 j John 6. 14, this is of atrmh that Prophet that Jhould come into the world; whofeOffice it w~s to impart Gods will unto the fons of men, according unto the name, Angel. 6. Someciu\es he is called the Mediarour of the new Covenant, for this caufe he is Hcb.)): 1$, the 111rdtatcur of the TJCIV Tcjlament, faiih the J\poflle ; now, a Mediarour is fuch a one as goes betwixt two parties at variance, imparting the mind of the one .to the other, fo as to breed a right underll:anding, and thereby to work a complyance beW!Xt both : and thus Cluift is a Mediarour betwixt God and us. By him it is that the mind and will ·of God is imparted to man, no man hath fem God at any time; the only John 1; 1 s. begotten Son, which i& in the bofome of the Father, he hath declared him: and by him it is · that we impart our mind unto God, The fmoak, of the inccnfe which goes with theprayers Rev. 8. 4, of theSaiilts, afcends up before God out of the Awgels h,md. This was typified in Mofes, 1 ftood betJVecn the Lordand you at that time, to Jhew you the Word of the Lord. The vu!- Dtut. 5·S· gar renders it thus: E<~o fequejlor & mediu<, I was a Mediatour, a Midler betwixt God and yo4 : and fo Chritl J~fus he is a Mediatour, a Midler, an Interpreter, an Inrermeffenger betwixt God and bis People. 2. The Reafons of Chrifts being a Prophet, were thefe : r, That he might reveal and deliver to his people the will of his father. 2. That he might open and expound the fame being once delivered. 3. That he might make his Saints to underll:and, and to believe the fame being once opened. 1. As a Prophet he delivers tO the people his Flthers will, both in his ownPerfon, and by Ius Servants the Minifl:ers. In his own Perfon when he was upon earth as a1Wi- R.o,.; 15, B, nifltr of '-'" rirCltmcifion ; and by his Servants the Min,i{~ers from the beginning of their mt/lton td l the end of the world; Thus the Gofpel is called, A great falv~tion which H<b. ~. 3· a: the frjr bega>llo be {pok;n by the Lord. and WM confirmedunto u< by them that heardhim.. Chnft 111 hiS own perfonal preaching i1 faid bt)t to have begun toteach, Acts I. I. and the conftunnute publtcltlon was rhe fending of rhe holy Gholl: to thefe feleCl: VelTels, who were to carry •broad tb~; treafure unto all the world . it was begun by the Lord and it was confirmed b¥ them thltwere the Difciples of ti{e Lord. In this refpeCl: we' cannot look on the publ!ibng of the Gofpel to the world, bur as very glorious;· was there nor a refcmbhnre of ilate and glory in the preaching of Cbrift? You have heard how" fgrcrumm "'" fe,u to prrpare hs1 way, as an Herald to proclaim his approach, and then 1r:~o m ·ealed the glory of the Lord; ·but becaufethe publication was nor coofummate. · B b 2 till
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