Of Eleflion. be ever livtth to n:Jate lllterceJ!i"o>Jfor them. In which words, alfo it is infert-~ ed,That the Pcrfons for whom this biSilnterce!lion is implo)'ed, are thoj( that Chap. g. cametqGod 6y him: Art thou ~ome to God6yh~m? (that is done by Calling,~ He then firfi drewThee:) he will imprcve his lnrerelt to fave thee to the ut• termojl, that is, to cart)' on thy Salvation to the 11tter.mof/ ofcafesfthat /hall fall out,to the uttermofi of time; that is, to the end ofthy lite; and all along in tha·t place in the Rommzs, he had in briefcoucht it up in thofe words, We fhalt much more be faved 6y hu lifr. And in both places, he puts the grcatd! dlicacy upon this his Interce!lion, as to the effectual carrying on of our .Salvation, compuatively to what his deatheffeds, much more, ( fays he tol the Re., mmu) able thrreby to jtlYe to the uttermojl ( fa)'s this to the Hebrews.) . Nay, ifhe takes thee once into his prayers, he will never leave thee out, but prevail forthee, whatever thy cafe be, or whatever thou fall ell into. A man may be cafi out ofGood Mens hearts, and prayers, as Saul was out ofSa– muil's, and the People out ofJerem.J"s; but no man was ever call outofChrifi's Prayers, whom he once took in. If there be a danger in any cafe, it mull l)e in thy fo finning,for which God fhould call thu off: But Chrifi's P"yers will fee to that, and prevail to prevent thy falling into fuch finnings, as of which, God hath faid, theyjball 11everbe forgivm ; as well as to pull thre forth out of the fire, in refped offuch fins that are capable ofbeing pardoned, if thou fallc!r into tlrem; to which lull purpofe, is that ofthe Apollle, Ifany mmt/in, we have a11 Advomte With the Father, Jefus Chrifl the RtghtroUJ, I Joh. 2.r. And the Priviledge, and benefit,. which a Chril\ian hath by the means, and virtueofChriCls Interce!lion, is unfpeakable, and not enough conlldered by Chrillians, to give him the Glory ofit, and to comfort thtir own hearts. .He Intercedes upon all occafions, M themaftrr doth reguirc; os Solomon's iil thut fo folemn prayer of his fpeaks, I Ki11g. 8. 5l· Nor do I impertinently cite that prayer, or that pa!fage ofit; For look as Solomons Confecration of the Tem• pie, was the Type of the Son of God his dwelling one day Bodily in an Human Nature, Confecrated to all the Offices of his Mediation; fo in that high, and comprehenfive prayer which Solomo11 made at that Confccration, he perform– ed the Type, or Reprefentative part of Chrill in his Intercc!lion, which he dil– charges in, arid by the Temple ofhis Humanity, now tranflated into the Hea– vens. And as Solomons prayer was, that the pri!J•rrs ofthe people fho.,!d 6e heard, upon this hi• general Prayer made afore-hand for them; So Chrills ln– terce!lion precedes ours upon all oceafions, and ours are as the Echo, or the refound ofhis. . . . . This confiant care ofChrift; thus td intercede upon all fuch emergent occa– fions, that.might obflrud our perfeverance, Chrill {hewed when he.Pcrfonally prayed for Peter, in a cafe of the greatefi need, that ever Peter had, and it was done by Chrill out offore/ight: I have praydfor th'ee, pcrfona lly, and particularly, upon that occafion of his being tempted, th,tt thy Faith fat I 1101; Do we think that Petrr alone,. had the good hap ofthis priviledge, becatife Chrifl was j:irefent on Earth then with him ? Nay, for all our fakes it is writ~ ten, flrmgtheit thy Brethren [aid Chrijl thereupon, fo fpeakin:; thereof, as of a matter that nearly concerned them all, for their comlort, ., well as his own. And in the execution, and performance of this, of interceding for 11', as the matter fhall require , it is, That he continues an High Priefi for us in Heaven, even to put in for us in and upon all our needs, efpecially Sp~r~tull ~. ond thereupon it is, that we are bidden, to comr boldly ulllo the Thro11r of Gl-ace, to find hrlp itt tim; o{i!very >teed, Hob. 4· I6. And we may in the Tenth Chapter ol' that Epillle, go into the Holy rj Holies, and pull (as 1t our High Priefi by the lleeve to remember it, in fuch and fuch a neec', JlHd ht u rz (aithjt~l Hrgh Prte(l, as Chapter,~. I7, 18. . . ·• And he heartly and to the utmoil:, imptoveth all the rnterell be bath m h" Father, wholly for them, lays it oil out this way. I prdy uot for the worldj Job. 17. 9· And as his R.ighteoufne!s, fo.his Interce!lion extends to the bene~ lit and behoofof thr rxcellwt ones 011 E<1r1h, and them alone. Tt Anl
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