Gbap.r.Seet.3. Lo1king Hnto1efr14. Book.IV. Part.VI. 933 4Jifllhem by th] energy, to plead their o1Pn cafe; I ~m their AdvocAte or lt~terce.ffor IJ] office, nnd therefore !Je thou thm Advoc11tr, " lntercef[or b] operAtion, inftrnElion • inJPirAti~n, nnd affijftmre. ______ ,____ _____ .-___ __..___., To whfm Chrifis intemffion iulire£led; 3.. TO whom is C.hrifts interceffion dired:ed? I anfwer,' · immediately to God the Father; ij ""1 manfin;""e htwe ~n AdvocAte-with the Father.Jefus Chrift the righteous. In the work 'of interc-effion are three perfons, a party offended, a party xJoh. :.r. offending, and the fntercdfor difiind: from them both; the partyoffended·isGod the Father, the party offending is ltnful man ,and thel"'tercelfor difiinct from ~hem both, is Jefus Chrilt, the middle perfon (as it were) betwixt God the Father, and us men; the Father is God, and not man; and we that beleeve in Chrift are men, and not God ; and Chrift-himfelf is both man and God, and therefore, he intercedes and mediates betwixt God and man; Ifany objeCt, that not only the Father is offend~ ed, but alfo the Sonne, and the holy Ghoft, and therefore there mull be aMediatour to them alfo.; the folution is ea!ie; Chriftsinterceffion is immediately directed to the Father , but becaufe the Father, Sonne, and holy Ghoft, have all one indivifible efience, and by confequence one will , it . therefore followes , t~at the Fat'ner beingappeafed by Chrifts interceffion, the Son, and the holy Ghoft a~e alfo appeafed with him , and in him. I' .deny not but Chrifis ipterceffion is made to the whole Trinity, but yet immediately , ;and dired:ly to the firfi perfon, and in him to the reft.--But iffo, then in fame fenfe. ( Say our adverfaries ) Chrif.f nMk,ts intercej]ion to himfe/f; which cannot he; 6ttaH[e in every intercl/Jion there muft ofneajfity be three parties : this point hath fore pu.zled the Church of Rome, that for the folving ofit, they knew no other way but to avouch Chrifr to be our in- - tercelfor only as man , and·not as God~ which is moft unt~ue; for as both natures did contur in the work offatisfaCl:ion , fo · likewif~
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