chap. 1.SeCl:. ~· JLoo:tmg unto 'jjtfu.S. Book IV. 52.9 cannot be mtered. But whlt are the interceffions of the Spirit to the interceffions of 1 Chrill: 1 I anfwer, much every way ; the Spirits• interccffions are as the effe<'!:, and Chrill:'s imerceffions are as the caufe; the Spirits imercefsions are as the Eccho, and Chrirl's interceffions are as the firft voyce; the S~irit intercedes for men in and by themfelvcs, but Chrift intercedes in his own perfon ; there is adependance of the Spirits intercefsions in us~pon Chrirt's intercefsions in himfelf. Firft, Chrift by his intercefsi– on applies his fatisfaction Q1Jde, and lays the falve to the very fore; and then he fends down his holy Spirit into our heartS to help our infirmities; and to teach us what to pray, and how to pray as we ought. Now this he doth as God, for who 01all sive a coromif– fion to the Spirit of God, but God himfelfl it is as if Chrill: lhould fay, fee holy Spirit, bow I take upon me the caufe of my Saints, I am perpetually reprefcnting my facriftce to God my Father, I am ever pleadiug for them, ~nd anfwering all the accu[atiom that ftn or Satan can lay 11gainfl" them, and now go thy may tP fucb ,md fuch, and tak! up thy dwelling in their hMrts, and ajfijl them by thy energy, to plead their own cafe, I am their .Advocate or Intercejfor by office, and therefore be thou their .Advocate or Intercej'or by operation, injlruflion, inJPiration, and a(fij/ance. SECT. Ill. To whom Chrifl's inrerceffion w diretfed. 3· TO whom is Chrill:'s imercefsion directed? I anfwer, immediately ro God the Father; If any man ftn, .we have. an .Advpcate with the Father, [efm Chri.ff I John 2. t. the righteous. In the work of mtercefston are .three perfons, a party offended , a party offending, and the InrerceiTor dtlbnct from them both ; the parry offended is God the Father, the party offending is finful man, and the Imercelfor diftinct from them both, is jefus Chri£1:, the middle perfon (as it were ) betwixt God the Father, and us men; the Father is God, and not roan ; and we that believe in Chrilt are men, and not God ; and Chrifi himil:lf i> both man and God, and therefore, be intercedes and mediatesbetwixt God and man: If any objetl:, that not only the Father is t>ffendcd, but alfo the Son, and the Holy·Gho£1:, and therefore there muft be a Mediator to them alfo; the folution is eafie; Chrift's imercefsion is immediately dire<'!:ed to the Father; but becaufe the Father, Son, and Holy Gho£1:, have all one indivifible elfence, and by confequence one will; it therefore followes that the Father being appeafed by Chrift's imercefsion, the Son, and the Holy Gholl are alfo appeafed with him, and in him. I deny not but Chrift's imercefsion is made to the whole Trinity, but yet im– mediately', and directly to the firll perfon, and in him to the relt - But if (o, then in Jome fen(e (fay our adverfaries ) Chrifl" mak!s interceJJi•n to himfclf, which c~nnot be; bec:mfe in ewry intcrceffion there mufl" of necejfity be three parties : this point bath fore puzled the Church of Rome, that for the folving of it, they knew no other way but to avoucb Chrift to be our imercdfor only as man, and not as God, which is moll: untrue; for as both natures did concur in the work of fatisfaction, fo likewife they do both concur in the work of imercefsion: and 'tis an anrient and approved rule, that . n~r(J(S of office, whichare give?:l to chrifl, fuch tU Mediatour, lnterceffor, &c. agree App~~atzones un;o_hi;' according t;both natures ; and can the a<'!: of Chrift's intercefsion. be the act of 'f!!::~~;?{t!·rec.mft s manhood alone I what ? to hear, and offer up prayers? to receiVe and prefent cundum utram– the prayers and praifes, and other fpiritual facrifices of all believers in the World? ~"' 11at.ram. to negotiate for them a11 at one and the fame time, according to the variety and multiplicity of their feveral occalionll furely this is, <~nd mufl: be the work of an infinite, · a~d nor of afinite agent ; this cannot be elfecteg without the concurrence of the divme mture with the humane, but wbar needs any further anfwer to this objection? fuppofe Chnft intercede to bimfelf as God; that is notimmediately, and directly to the fame porfon God the Son, though to the fame God eiTentially ; indeed Chrill: "'"'.:tpi.-@- God-man, in refpect of his natures agreeth with both , being not only God, nor only man, but God-man, man-God, bleiTed for ever; but in refpeei of his perfon, being the fecond perfon in the Trinity, he is dill:inct from both. 1. From ·the perfonality of man, for he bath only the perfonality of God and not of man. 2. From the lirll: perfon of the Godhead, who is God the Father, for there are three 1 John S·7· that bear record in Hzaven, the F~ther, the Word, and the Holy Ghof!-; 'and thefc three are •ne, (i.~.) threeperfons, andbwone G•d. . sECT.
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