Chap, 3 3, 14n .Exp®fstion upon the Bao% of j o s. Verf. 24. q I r Satan by force, buthe delivers us out of the Cm-revenging hand of his Father by price. Chrilf owed the Devil! nothing ( nor doe we) but blowes, but having undertaken our caufe, he owed his Father as much as our debt and deliverance from it amounted to, avat+ fumme, yet he had enough to anfwer it to the utmofr far- 'Ling, anddid, and fodelivered us. There is a third way ofdeliverance, and that isby fupplication and interceffion, which may be confidered two wayes,.Firlr,by our ownprayers and fupplicarions Secondly, by theprayers and fup- plications of others ; whichprayers of others are properly called mtercel lions, The interceflion of a man with man maydeliver himfrom thewrath ofaman. And the intercellion ofa man with God, hath wrought the temporali deliverance of forceboth per- font, andNations ; and therefore when the Lord was refolsed not to fpare his people, he forbad the intercelfion of the Prophet (f er. t.}. i i .) Pray net fir thie pooplefor theirgood : And he profeflèd (fer.,i 5. s.) Though Mofesand Samuel ( thole two mighty Advocates) flood beforeme (praying he meanes for them) yet mymind rouldnot. be towards this' people, cá.ßí them ont.afmy fight ; In that Godwouldnot deliver his people upon their .inter- cef on, is an argument that he oftendoth. But cis the inrerceflion ofChriff alone which carryeth it withGod (and that alwayes car- ryeth it,for the Father alwayeslieareth him, that is, granteth his requefrs) for the deliverance ofhis people both from temporali fpirìtuall and eternal! evil's. This intercellion of Chrih is the fruit ofhis blood flied, or of the ranfome paid down for us. For as his bloodpurchafethour deliverance, fo by his intercellion iris giveninor applyed to u4. We have the impetrationof our pardon by Chrifrs fufferîngs, and the application of it, by Chrilr inter- cedingfor us. So then, we are delivered both by pewer,and price, andprayer in feverall and difrinór refpeets But the prefent text fpeaks of deliverance only by a price, Ihave found a ranfwe,I am well paid, faith God, for mansdeliverance. This ranfome every poor foul may plead . before the Lord, for his deliverance both from ficknefs deathand hell. He that bath nothing to offer to the. Lord ( as indeed thebelr have nothing of their own worth the offering, and if theyoffer any thing oftheir own, of how ,much worth fever it mayTeem to be, it will nor paffe norheaccepted, he (I fay) that hath nothingof his own rooffer) yet may tell G g g him
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