I 1 34· Honour dtte to tl7e Perfon ofChrifl; -bf their Death-bed Groans. And the more we have been in the exercife ofFaith on him in our lives, the more ready will it be in the approaches ofDeath, to make its refort unto him in a peculiar manner.. . And it may be other Infrances of an alike nature inay be given unto the fame purpofe. An Anfwer unto an Enquiry which may poffibly arife from what we have infified on, fhall clofe this Difcourfe. For whereas the Lord Jefus Chriil cu Mediator cloth inter– cede with the Father for us, it may be enquired, l:Jihether we may prCI_Y unto him, that he would fo intercecle on our /Je– half; whether this l?e comprized ~n the Duty of Invocation, or Prayer unto him. Anf. (r) There is no Prejident nor Example of any fuch thing, of any fuch Prayer in the Scripture. And it is not fafe for us to venture on Duties not exemplified therein. ·Nor can any Inilance of a neceffary Duty be given, ofwhofe per– formance we have not an Example in the Scripture. (2.) In the Invocatian of Chnil, we honour the Son, e'Ven as we ho– nour·the Father. Wherefore his Divine Perfon is therein the formal Objefr ofour Faith. We confider him not therein as afring in his Mecliatory Office towards God for us, but as he who bath the abfolute Power and Difpofal of all the Good things we pray for. And in o~r Invocation of him, our Faith is fixed on, and terminated on his Perfon. But as he is in the Difcharg,e of his Mediatory Office, through him our Faith andHope is in Got!, r Pet. 1. 2 r. · He who is the Mediator, or Jefus Chrift the Mediator, as God and Man in one Perfon, is the Objefr of all Divine Honour and Worfhip. His Perfon, and both his Natures in that Perfon, is fo the Objefr of Re– ligious Wodhip. This is that which we are in the Proof and Detnonfl:ration of. Howbeit it is his Vi·vine Nature, and not his Difcharge of the Office of Mediation, that is theformal
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