45 2 Bleffed; are they that make peace between mar and Ged, rable ellate of the children of men, and law that if they were left to themfelves, they were all undone, and would be eter- nally enemies to God, and Godran eternal enemy to thenì, he now Reps in between, and through the appointment of th-e Father he mediates between wretched man and God,to make up peace,he (lands (I fay) as the great Mediator of the fecund, Covenant ; And his heart was fo much in the work of inakin, peace between man and God as he was content to lay: down his life to the end he might make peace : Celof: j. zo. And ha- ving made peace through the blood of his Croft : Mark , Je us Chrifts heart was fo much in being a peace -maker between the world and God, as though he knew it would coil him his dea- refl heart blood,faith Chrift it than go,yea,the Scripture tels us' he was content to be a curfe for man ; O do but confider (you children ofmen) what a dillance there was between God and yoú, that Chriff, God and man mull come to make peace be- tween God and you, and' he muff shed his blood, he mull be made a curfe for the accomplilhing of this great work of God; This my Brethren is the great millery of godlineffe,this is that that we should fpend all our dayes in a &mi.ing in,in flanding8t wondring, and bleffing our Saviour the great peace maker: Had - it not been for hini,,we had all been eternally enemies to God.. Olet our fouls bleffe Jefus Chrili,ani the greater the curfe was upon Chrifi in this work, the more let our fouls biefs Ch'riti, it is the work that the Angels and the Saints Nhall be exercifed in to all eternity, in faying, Blefng, and honour,and Arai fe;and' worfhip, and fer-vice be to him that fitteth npon the Throne, and to the Lamb for ever more,: For he bath redeemed us by his blood, as in the S Revelation, thofe that ever knew what the blefing of peace with God meanes, they know how to bleffe God for Jefus aria, and any of you that fometimes will be blef ing of God for outward peace, for plenty', and comfort that yoù have in this world, I appeale ta your confciences in this 2uefiion,dematiding of you in the name of God ; When did you fpend time above in your Clofets in admiring at the glory of God in that great work of the mediation of Jefus Quiff, insmiting peace between God and your fouls ?. When Vas.
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