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63 In »hofe name andrnediatio, we muff pray. and Saints, images, the crolfe and Eucharift, and in their prayers reprefenting the invifible and incom- prehenfible God in a vifible form : notwithilanding God in his great mercy hath taken us who profeffe the reformed religion into the ark of his Church, teaching us by his word and fpirit to call upon him the true God in the name of Chrift his Sonne, himfelf alto being near unto us, as he was to the Church of Ifrael, in all that we call upon him for, Deut.4.7. CHAP. XIIII. That Chrifi alone is the mediatour of intercef ion as well ors redemption. HAving fpoken of the fubjea of invocation, viz. men; and the objea., viz. God : we are now in the third place to enquire, how it cometh to paffe that man being ffained and polluted with finne, and by reafon thereof an enemie to God, fhould have any acceffe unto God, or be admitted to any fpeech with him, who is moft juif and terrible, a confu- ming fire, & hating all iniquitie with perfeí`l hatred. Indeed it mull be confeffed, that finne maketh a fe- paration between God and man, and that both we are unworthy in our felves to appear before God, and our prayers alto by reafon of our manifold wants and corruptions unworthy to he offered unto him. And therefore ofneceffitie a mediatour was to come between God and man, who reconciling us unto God, and covering our imperfections, might make both our perlons and our prayers acceptable unto