JL,rotttng unto jjduS'. Chap. 2. sea. 3· 55 5 J_u_d_g_e:_a_n_d_A_d-=-v-o-c-at_e_;_ a f~reAdvocate.; -he -ever prevails in whatfoever .... b_e_n_n""d.:..er-.--..:..,::...:...._ takes .' be was never yet call: in any futt; he bath for thefe fixteen hundred years canicd away all· the caufe~ of hundreds , tboufands, and millions of fouls ; why Book IV. he is fo dear and near to his Father that he can work him to any t!ung he will: And 0 · my f.JUl, if thou haf1: any relation tO Je~us Chrirl, is not here comfort ( r.dare in the Name of Chrifl be thy warrant, and gtve tt under. my hand, that .'f C?~tf1: proy for thee Chrif1: will be fure to fave thee, he never yet fatled, he never will fat! m any of his fuits'to God Oh confider of this! . 9 . ConGder of the Rtafons of Chrill:'s interceffion; many are given, but this may be fufficient It i< God's own Ordinance; the very Wtfdom of God found out this way to fave our fouls viz... that an high Prielt lhould be appointed, who lbould die for fin– nets and after~ard prefent his death to his Fath'f by way of intercellion in their be– half.' Some may look upon this as needlefs, what could not God have pardoned our fins and faved our fouls without • Prieft? I 01all not difpute God's power, but if any will letfuch • one tell me what way could his own wifdom have found out to heaven bet~ern the wrath of God, and the fin of man? I believe it would have pofed all the wifdorn of the world ( of Men and Angels ) to have reconciled God's mercy in the falvation of man, and his juftice in the condemnationof Gn ; to. have poured out hell upon the fin, and yet to have berlowed heaven upon th~ finner; .now then if God himfelf did ftudy to find out th!S way, and that he bath fatd, 'Jhu u my pleafure, that Chrift my Son fl 1 a/l be aPrieft, and that he fha!l offer himfelf, and prefent himfelf '!nd .hi< offering, ~nd hi< prayer to me for hu people: 0 my foul ref1: on thts as t~e very ordmauon of God . Admire at the conmvan<e of God, fay, 0 thedepth ! queftwn no further, on– ly medit;.!e, and P?nder, and con!ider of it till thou feeleft Cluift's inrercellion darting its influence and efficacy on thy fin.fick fonl. SECT. II (, ~· . ·' ,, Of de firing after Jefm in that refpefl. 3. LEt U$ dtfire tl{ter Jefm carrying on this work of our falvation in his imercellio~~ I cannot but wonder what a dulnefs feizeth on my heart, and on all the hearts of the fons of men, that we hav.,: no more longings after Chrift, whofe heart is ever panting and longing after us. Surely we do not fer our felves to find out experimen– tally the fweetnefs that isinChri!'t ; if there were not another objeCl: to think upon' but only thisone of Chrift'simercellion, is not here enough to put us all into a teem~ ing longing frame ? 0 my foul, rouze up, and fetthis blelfed object before thy face ! take a full view of it until thy affections begin to warm, and thou beginit to cry, Oh for my part in Chrift's interccffion ! oh I would not bt left o~t of Chriji'' heavenly prayers for ten tho1.j'andworld1 ! come and be ferwus! the object is admirably fweet and preci– ous; long for it, pant after it l God underftands the Rhetorick of thy breathing, as well as of thy cry. But what is there in Chrift's interceffion that is fo defirable? I anfwer-- I. In Chrilt's intercellion !yes the prefent tranfaCl:ion of our fouls falvation. Such palfages as hitherto we have fpoken of are done and pafi ~ the tranfactions of eterni– ty , were at an end when time began ; the tranfactions of Chrif1: promifed , bad their period when Chrift was incarnate; the tranfactions of Chrift's birth, and life and death, and refurrefrion, and afcenfion, .are now above a thoufand and fix hun– dred years old; I know the venue and influence of all thefe tranfactions continue,' and will continue for ever and ever, but the feveral athngs had their periods ; and only Chrift's fefsion, and mifsion of his Spirit 1 and his blelfed imercefsion both were, and now are.the very prefent imployment of J efus Chrif1:. If it were pofsible that we cot<ld fee tn to Heaven, if with Stephen we could look up ftedfaftly, and fee the Heavens opened; if our eyes by an extraordinary po\lfer were carried through that azure Sky, and through all till we come to. the Holy of Holies, and ro Jefus Chrif1: in his glory ; what fl10uld we fee but Chiif1: interceding , Chrif1: bufic with his Fathe~ in his poor. Saints behalf? now he prayes , now he prefenrs his per– fon , mertts , umrcefsron, interpellation, q. d. l-ather here are a company of :rebels .... ~a:.n z jujlty
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