<::bap.x.Sect.6 L1oklng rmto :jefru. Book. IV. Part.4. 737 themfelves together into one body and fiate. God and we were enemies but Chrift. flood in the midft to reconcile us unto God, and to 'flay this enmity; and to this purpofe Chrift is called ~17 1 111{, a Mediatour, a terme peculiar to the Scriptures, not to be found among£1: prophane Alllhours. 0 what comfort is here to fee Jefus Chri.ft fl:and in the midft ? now may the Difciples behold him as their bleffed peace- maker, their Mediatour, as one that hath jlai11e rhe enmity; not only that enmity betwixt men Eph,:,16. and men, Jews and Gentiks, but alfo betwixt God and men. This he did by his death, and now he declares it at his refurrecti· on; for fo the Apoftle there goes on, having jl,;ine the en'!'if.J by hi& croj[e, he came and pmtchedpeace; and fo the Evangehft here Vcr.17, goes on, after his refurrection {efm came and flood in the midft, andfaid tmto them, peflcc be HNf{) p11. You fee how be ftood.-- 2. What be faid, this is the next palfage, hefaid peace be um, ysu, a feafona ble falutation; for now were the Difciples in feare and trouble; they had no peace with God,or man, or with their own confcicnces; and therefore a more welcome newes could not have come ; I fuppofe this peace referres to all thefe. As.- I. It [peaks their peace with God; fin was it that brought a difference betwixt God and man, now this difference Jefus Chrift had taken away by his death, Behold the Lamb ofGod which tfl'<f.t Joh , s, ~9. awdJ the fins ofthe "ll'orld; he had taken it away in its condemning power, or as to it's feperatiAg p~wer betwixt God and them; this was the great defigne of Chrifl:s coming to make peace be. twixt God and man; his Father impofed this office upon him.: and Jefus Chrift undertook it, and difcharged it, and now he proclaimes it, in the fir£1: plitce ,to his Difciples, pe.tce be tmtoyou 2. It fpeaks their peace with man : I know no reafon why we: fhould exclude civil peace out ofChrifl:s wifh, many, and many a promife and precept we have in the Word fcattered here and there to this purpofe, 0'nd I willgive pe.>~ce in the land, and p foal! lyr d6wn, and none /ball mak! JON afr~id.-And thou jba!t be T.eV·1.6,6. . inleaguewiththeftonesoftbefteld, and thoujba!t k_mw thatthJ Job)·13:l4: Tabernacle foal! be in peace, and fee'<_ the peace of the City -and Jcr.29 1· pray unto the Lord for it,for in the peAce thm~f foal/ ye have peace. Hcb. x :.14• B bb bb -.And
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