I. He/food in the mid(l. Herein -here prefents himfelfe as a common good ; things placed in the midft are common ; and he ftands in the midft as a common Saviour, and hence it is that our faith is called a common fai,th, te T;tus my Jon after the common faith: and our fa,!vationiu:alled a common falvation. I gave all diligence to write .unto you of the common Jalvation . And in that way as falvatiQn is common, Chrift Jefus is called a common Luk.:~.. 10, 11 .' Saviour; behold I bring you glaJ, tydings of great joy which jhall be to all people,for unto you, (unto all you) u borne in the City of Da1:1id arS111vioar, which is {hrift the L ord . This pofture ofChrift (ftanding in the midft) declares that he defp.ifet h none, but that he takes care of them all. Some obferve, that a II the while ( hrift Luk· l.46. Joh.r.~6. , Luk. 2.~ , 2.7, · was on earth, he moll-what ftood in this pofiure; at his birth he was found in a ftable in the mtdft of beafis; in hischildehood he was found in the Temple in the midff ofthe Doctors; in his m11.nhood, 'fohn the Baptt(t told them, there ft .mderh one in the midft ofpu, whom)~ /zyow not; and he faid ofhimfelfe, I am in t he mid.ft Gf you M one that ferv eth; at his death that very place fell to his turne: for they crucified him in the midll betwixt two theeves, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: And' now , Lute. H 33· at his riGngthere we finde him againe, the Difciples in the mid!l: <>fthe Jews, and be <in the midft of his Difciples After tb ii in Ptiltmo ,·, 1 ,hn faw him in heaven in the ns iajr of the throne; and in Rev.7. 17·-earth he faw him in the midft of the [even golden candle1'13· ftickJ; and in the ]aft day he {ball be in the niidft too, .Mar.:t5• H• of the fheep on his right hand, and if the goates on hu left. . .Butl fin de there is yet more in it, thlft he /food in the mUff: for the midft Is Chrifts place by natur.e, he is the fecond per!on in ·tl)e TriQity; and the midll is Chrifis place by office , hedea·feth betwixt God and man; and the midil: is Chrifts pl ace in refpeCl: · ofhi~ perfon 'be is God-man, one that hath intereil: in both parties; it was the mid~le perfon who was ro be the middle one, that undertook this mediation betwixt God and us . We read in the Roman hiA:ory, that the Romans and Sabims joyning battel together , the women being daughters to the or.e fide, and wiv~s to the other, interpofed chemfelves and took up the quarrel; and · by their mediation who bad a peculiar interefi in c:it ' er Gde,lthey who before fiood upon big heft tc:rmes ofhoftility,did now joyne . them-
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