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To
whom.
Even to the
Sonne
and
holy
Spirit.
Dolt,
2.
Only
by
Chrift
wee
have
acceci'e
to
Cod.
Objefl.
ruf
Objet.
itsf
.
Why Saints
on earth joyne
in prayers,not
in
heaven.
1.
Epheflans,Chap.z.
V
E
R.18.
Comming
to God.
Let
us come before
the
Lord
with
P[limes. Let
us
draw
neare the
throneof grace.
Hcbr. 4.
16.
We
bowing
the
knees
of
our hearts doe fpeak
to God.
2. Marke
to whom
it
is
to
be
diretled,
to
the Father; thus Chrift teachcth
us in
the Lords prayer; our Fa-
ther,dc.
And
iohn
14.
Whatfoevier
yee
aske
the
Father
in
my
name
,
yee
(hall receive
it: yet
we
muff
not
fo
conceive
as
if
the Sonne and the
Holy
Ghoft
were not
to
bee called on , for things
are wifhed
from
Chrift
as
well
as
the Father,
and
the fpirit
is
prayed
unto
as
well
as
either: The
Sonne
and
Spirit
are
not
indeed expreffed. But
the
Fa-
ther excludeth
all
other
perlons
that
are
pure Creatures, not
Periuns,,
which
have
the
fame fingular
efFence
with him. Secondly,
thefe are
not
named,
becaufe fuch
is
the
divine
difpenfation, that
though
when one
is
invocated , all are invocated; yet
the Father
is
fitly a-
lone named, becaufe the Sonne hath the part
of
a
Mediatour,through
whom
we goe
to
the Father:
and
the Spirit
,
the
office
of
a
Sclioole-
mafter,teachingwhat
to
pray,and
as
we
ought. Neither
hence may
it
be inferred,
that
therefore Saintsare not excluded: For
as
this or that
faid
of
the Father doth
not
exclude
the
Sonne and Spirit , each being
one
God with him,fo
it
doth fhutout whatfoever
is
not God from
par-
ticipating
in
that which
is
appropriated
to
him.
t
Cop.
8, 6.
Ynto
us
thereis
but
one
God,
whichis the
Father,
of
whom
allthings,
and
one
Lord
le
fus Cbri
Ft,by
whom
are
all things.
Marke
fecondly,
by
whom we
have
acceffe
with
boldneffe;
by
Chrifl,
and
him
only:
There is
one
Mediatour
between God
and
man, Chrifl Iefss:
one Mediatour, who bringeth
of
all
forts
to God
, and maketh our
prayers
for every
kind
of
men
to be
acceptable,
r.
Tim. 2. 5. Hee
a.
lone being able
to
make
our prayers welcome
to
God,
and
fpecd
in
the thingsthey intreat
:
and therefore
the
Scripture Both found
his
intercellion
in his facrifice. He
gave
himfelfe
a facrifrce
of
a
fweet finel-
ling
favour
to God,
Eph.
y.
2.
But
it
will be
faid
,
How
is
it,
then that
we pray one
for anothert
This
is
no making our felves Mediatours one
for another,
but
a
joyning
in
petition
to
one
Mediatour,
love in
fellow
-
members
fo
requiring;
as
if
I
had
a
fuit
to the
King,
if
I
fhould take
two
or three
to
accompany
me
in
delivering my petition to force one Matter
of
re-
quefts, this were not to
make his friends
Matte
requefts,
but lo.
ving affociates
with
himfelfe
going with him.
But
why
then may we
not
call
the
Saints at
leaft
o
joyne with
us
in
our feverall petitions
to Chrift
This
particular praying wherein one
Chriftian joyneth with
ano.
ther,is
grounded on three reafons, none
of
them
being the
like
with
the
Saints
departed
or
Angels.
Not
frmplyon
love
ofmember
to
member, but
on love
determi-
ned
to
fuch duties
as
the
occafions
of
this life
requireilkw
though the
Saints are more perfe
ì
in
love, yePthefe particulars
of
it , they
are
freed
from.
It
is
grounded on
the
exprefï'e
commandement of
God,
Pray
one
for
another.