Chap.' 6. An Expofrtion ripen the Book of J OB. Yeti 21. 589 byothers it is taken only, as a conjun6ion copulative, knit- ting both parts of the Vex fe together : He will pleadforaman with God, and the Son ofmanfor his Friend. From the.wordsaccòrding to this latter reading. Obferve, Fin i, There is an Advocatebetween God and Man. Sin bath made a breach, there needs a Mediator to heal it. God and tinfoil man are (as we fpeak) Two, and they cannot be made One but by 'a Third. Man was created in a fiate of amity with God, that fare needed noMediatour; man being refiored is in a gate of reconciliationuntoGod, that Rateneeds a Mediatour, both to fettle and continue it t And he who as the Mediator between bothparties, is an 4dvocate a plea- der , a Patron for the oneparty. There was need of . a Me- diator, even in regard of God himfclf, that both his State might be preferved, and his Ju fiee fatisfied : But there'wls nerd ofan Advocate, only in regard of man, that fo his wants and miferies might be declared, and that mercy together with help in the time ofnerd might be obtained. The Apolile (Gal./ 20.? defcribing the nature of a Mediator, faith, Amediator is not ofone, or (as we fupply) not a Mediator of one. A Mediator is of two yea and fo two. But an Advo- cate, though he be between two, yet Oe is but for one, or of one, either (f one individually taken, or ofone fpecifically taken, either alone man, or ofone fort or company ofmen, who though they arc many in number, yet their 'late, or Cafe is one. Thus Chriii is an Advocate' for one, or of one = all that he is -an Advocate for, being in one and the fame condi- tion for the main, though forne particulars in every mans cafe may vary. ' The Greek word which is' rendred Advocates in the NTew Teiiament is applyed to the holy Ghoft: But there is á r , a't difference between ChriLt his bring a Paraclete, or an Advo cate, and the f-pirits being an Advocate, john i 6. 7. If Igo not away (faith Chrifl the Comforter (or the Advocate) will not cote untoyou that is, The holy G lbofi', will not come'unto' -you. OneAdvocategoeth away that'th'eo herAdvocatemaycome. Chrifi is an Ad voc teb vvay tïf irnpetratäon, the fpirit' is Ad- vocate by way of-application: Chrifi is an Advocate with God, to get mercy for us the fpirit is an Advocate with us, to
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