392 Oap.t&. An Expofition up-on the B.00k0f J O}3. VerC,2i: that followed them (and leaf{ we (lipoid mitlake what was meant by that Rock, the Apoftle expounds it himfelf) And. that Rockwas GbriJf., The Rock 'did not follow them; but Chill who was iìgnihed by that Rock did toiloty them. They who are built upon Chrift the Rock, (hall never be mo- ved, yet Chriti is a moving, as well as a living Rock, to thofe who are built upon him; whither foever they move, he follows them. Thus Jefús Chrifi was meat and drink to the Jews as well as to us; for -he is the Lambfiainfrom thefoundation ofthe world, Kerel, 113. S. that is, The vertue ofhis death Caved all who have been bayed from the foundation of the World. As Chrill was Clain from Eternity in the counfel of God ; fo he was fain from the beginning of time in the promife ofGod Gen 3.r5.,which was the publication of his death ; he was then alfo Thin as to the heart of Believers, wholeFaith (having once a word for it) makes that which is absent in regard of place, fpiritually prefent, and that which is not, in regard of time, truly to be. Thirdly, Obferve : The Mediatour between God andmanbath beenknown andbe- lieved in all Ages under a twofold nature, both god and Man, We have both in thisprofdliion offob's.Faith: He believed the Mediatour to be God, for he faith Mine eye poureth tearer to God. There is the divine nature. He believed that the Me- diatour ihould be roan, and therefore adds, The Son ofman for his friend; there is his humane nature ; fo that not ooely the general Do'trine of the mediator(hipof Chrifr, but this particular about the conflitution of his perron as Mediatour, was altoknown. Had not our Advocatebeen man he could not have fuffered for us , and had he not been God he could not have fatished for us. There points of Gofpel CatechiCm are... fo neceffary and fundamental, that in every Age, Belie- vers. have in force meafure been infiruóed about them. And whereas the Apoftle faith, a Tim. 2. 5. There it one Media- tour between Godand man, or, of God and men the man ChriJf Jefiu He Both not add man, to exclude the Divine nature horn theMediatorfhip, but emphatically todemonfirate that nature, in which he gave himfelf a ranfome for us, ofwhich he fpeaks in the next Verfe. For though the ranCame was paid by him who i5 God,or had a divine nature, yet it was paid, in
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