3 Chap. 19. AnExpofition upon the Bockof j OB. Ve fr the price to his Father, under whole jufice we were fallen ; and fo he exactly fulfilled all the duties;and fuílained all the parts of a Redeemer to the ntmoft. To clear up this Title or Office of Chrift yet further, we May take notice that Chrift is called in Scripture, a Mediator as well as ,o Redeemer, yet thefe titles are not of equal] extent. Chrift is a Mediator, yea a head for, and to thofe, whole Redee- mer he is not. The,good Angels have Chrift for their head and Mediator as well as man ; but man onely hath Chrift for his Redeemer. The evill orfallen Angels could not be redeemed, therefore Chrift took,nct upon him thenature of Angels(Heb.2, a 6.) The good Angels, or thole who Rand in obedience, had no need to be redeemed, yet they had need to be confirmed, and therefore Chrift took careof the Angels, and became their head and Mediator. So that as Chnit is Mediator between God and man, to makeup the breach that is between them ; fo he is Me- diator between God and the elec`b Angels, to maintaine the union that is between them ; but he is a Redeemer to man onely. Farther, lob doth not onely profeffe faith in a Redeemer, but in his redeemer ; cMy redeemer liveth ; every word in this confeffion is precious and weighty. Here heufeth an appro. priating word ; yet he Both not engroffe the redeemer to him- felfe excluding others but he takes his part with others. Thofe l'ronounes, mine, thine, his, are (vecesamatorin) words oflove, and drop like honey - combes with fweetneffe of affecli- on. Yob's heart was carried out abundantly to Chrift in love as well as in faith. The firfl worke of faith is to beleeve that Chria is a Redeemer ; the fecond is toref and relie upon Chrift as a redeemer ; the third is to fee an intereft in Chrift as my Re- deemer. When the fervants ofBennhadad (r Kings 20.32. ) came nas va'tie a- to Ahab mediating for his life, He no fooner laid, He is my bro. rnicernverbr,rn then, but they tooke hold of it, as of a comfortable word. propier utramq.; TheSyrians as (as force report them) were Soutüfayers, who vo em, 6' qua¡ faperflitionfly obferved a good Omen from thole words which amen ; omen rI they called Leckie. ' Tis probable Benhadads fervants were skild eugueiurn ex p vertu cap,aie n, in tech obfervations, and took it for a good Omen, when Ahab Syri eraur laid my Brother. The Text implyes tome filch thing, white we a,i dticceit'. read (vtr. 33. ) that themnen did diligently obferve whether any thing
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