f •. 260 · ' Ckrifl the King · in the confiitution of the adminifiration, peculiarly In 4"avour of the objeCts of eleCting loTe. So the Inter· celfor himfelf teacheth us, John xvii. 9· ' I pray not for the world, but for·them which thm:1 h~fr given me•• V er. 20. · For them which lhall .believe in ·me. Ver. 24. Father, I will that they alfo whom thou hall giv-en me, be with me where I am:' . ' NowChrifi adminifters the covenant, as lntercelfor thereof, the~e following ways chiefly. · , Firfl, E.ffeetually procuring by his interefl: in hea– ven, the actual inbringing of his elect; at the time appointed, into a covenant-ftate of union, commu– nion, peace, and favour , with God. John xvii. 20. ~ Neither pray I for ·~:hefe a'Jone, but'for them alfo which 1ball believe on me through their ·word: Ver. 2 I. ' That they all may be one, as 'thou Father art in met 'and I in thee ; that they alfo may be ~me in us.• They are by nature~ in a fiate of enmity with God, even as others: but through Chrifi's interce.ffion the peace is made between heaven and them•. He pur– e~afed it for them by the bl~od of his facrifice; it was promifed to him in the covenant, on that fcore ;· and by his interc,effion he' actually obhtins it,unto them. His interceffion is the fpring that pti~s all t~e wheels in motion, that are fet a going, in the time of loves, for bringing' one out of the Hate. of nature, jnto a fl:ate of grace. Providence mariageth favour– ably towards the converfion of the man ; the _word ~owerfulJy affects him, while on ~thers it falls ~ike rain on a rock, running offas faft as 1t comes on ; the bufinefs of eternal falvation is doily laid to heart ~ith him ; the law cloth its office upon ~im, and fo cloth the gofpel alto in its turn : and thefe things ceafe not, until he is brought into a new fiate, and is become a newcreature. Whence did a11 this take it$ iife? Why? "" the man had an unknown-friend in the court of, hea– ven, who fpoke for him t~ the ~ing: ~nd all this is the fruit of that interceffion made for htm. P.e~ondlyi
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