Looking unto :Jefus. Book lV. and the Prophet, Job. 7· 40. and thttt Prephet, Job. 6. I 4· thu u I h (} 4 ofa tnJth that !'rophet that fhottld come into 1he wor/.1 ; whofc 0 11 • 1 ' office it wai to tmpart Gods wtll unto the fons of men, according unto the name, A11gel. 6. Sometimes he is called the Media tour of the new Covenant, for this caufe be i« rhe_ VJ;[e~iatour Hd~ • 1 , of the, N en' Teftament, fatth the Apofile; now, a Medtatour ts fuch· · 9 r a one as goes betwixt two parties at variance, . imparting the mlnde of the one to the other, fo as to breed a nght underftand• , ing, and thereby to work a ~omplyance betwixt ~ot~: and thus· Chrift is a Medtatour betwtxt God and us. By lam tt ts that the minde and will of God is imparted to man, no man hath feen God at any time. t/Je only brgotten SoJine, which Min the bofome of the Father j he lwh declared him; and by him it is that \VC impart John It 18. our minde Unto God, the fmoale§ of the incenfe ,Phichloeswith the Rev. 8. 4· prayers ofthe Saints, afcends up befere God out ofthe Angels hand. This was typified in Mofes, I ft ood betwun the L Grd and you at that time, to jheJv JOU the Word of the L ord. The vulgar renders it Deut. 5. ). thus , ego fequeftor e:>- medius, I was a Mediatour, a midler· betwixt God and you: and fo Chrift Jefus he is a Mediatour, a · midler, an interpreter, an inter-meifenger betwixt God and .his. people. . 2. The reafons of(hriil:s being a Proi'het, were thefe; r. That he might reveale 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 underHand, and to· beleeve the fame being once opened. 1. As a Prophet he deli'fers to the people his Fathers will,both in his own perfon, and by his fervants tire Minifiers. In his own perfon when h~ was upon earth as a Mimfler of the circ'Umcijion; Rom. 1 j'. 9: and by h1s fervants the M.iniil:ers from the beginninQ of their million till the end of the world; Thus the Gofpel is"called a great falvation JvhiciJ at the firfl began to beJtokfn by the Lord, ;11d w& confirmed unto u. by them that heard him. Chriil: 1n his own H:b.q perfonal preaching is [aid. bu.t to have begun to teach, Act. 1 • 1 • ' and thcconfummate publlcatJon was the fending of the holy Ghoft to thefe fe!ea veifels, who were to carry abroad this trcafure unto all the world, it was begun by the Lord and it was confirmed by them' that were the difciples of the Lord. In this refpect we cannot look on the publif11ing of the Gofpel to the · world,
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