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CAT'
.1
X.
4,3.
The
influence
of
ChrifE'slnterceßion
into
the
Pert
of
Sts.
216 halfe
of
thetn,in whofe
Caufe
he appeares and
fues,
that
fo
he
may fave them
to
the utmoft. Now
this
mutt be, either, that
being, and continuing
Belie-
vers, they
may
be
Saved,
or
that
they may
believe and continue
Believers
unto
Salvation.
That
thefrft
is
not the
foie
import and
aime
of
the Inter-
ceffion
of
Chrift,
may be manifet}ed,from this
double
Confideration.
t.
From
the
nature
of
the thing
it
felfe.
There
is
nothing but
the
dia-
blifhment
ofthe
very Law
ofthe
Gofpell,
(He
that
believeth fball
be
saved)
wrapt
up
in this
interpretation
of
the
Interceffion
of
Chrift.
But
this nei-
ther bath
Chrift any need
to
intercede for,
it
being ratified, confirmed, and
declared
from
the beginning,neither
is
there,
or
can
there
any Oppofition be
made
againft
ir,
to
fhake,weaken,
or difturbe
it,
in
the
leaf}:
it
depending
folely
on
the
Truth
and Unchangeableneffe
of
God, not
being veffed by
a-
ny Condition
whatfoever,in
any
other
fubje&:
nor
would
this
be availing
to
his
Militant
Church,whofe prefervation he
aimes
at and intends
in his Inter
cefiion:For
the
whole
of
his defires may
be granted
him
to
the
uttermof},
and
yet
his
whole Church
at
any
time militakt,perith
for`
ever.
Though
not
one
foule thould continue believing
to
the end,
though
the
gates
of
Hell
fhould
prevail againft
every
one,that
names
the
name
of
Chrift in
the
world,yet
that
Truth
He
that
believeth,fbgll
be
saved, taken
in
the
fence
of
our
Adverfaries,
for
a
Promife
to
Perfeverance
in
believing, and not
a
promife to
ac`fuall
true
Believers,
might
Rand firme
for ever.
To
fay
then,that
this
is
the
whole
In-
tercefíion
of
Chrift for
his
Church,
is
to fay,that
in
his'Wbolelnterceffion,
he
Ioh.i I.
44.
Interceded not at
all for
his
Church:
He
is
heard in his
Inteieeffron,
and
he
may
be heard to the uttermoft
in this,
and
yet
his.
whole Church
be
fo
farre
from
being
faved
to
the utmofl,
as
utterly to
be deftroyed
and
confu-
med.
4.
3.
z.
Doubtleflè
the
Interceflion
ofChrift, mutt
anfwer the
Ikeprefentation
of
it,
which
the
Apofile
fo much
infftsonHeb`7.9.
Of
the
Oblation
of
Chrift
there
were many Types
in
the
Aaronicall
Priefthood
of
the
Law:
Of
his
Inter-
cefíìon,but
one principally; namely,
that
folemne
entrance
of
the
high Prieft
with
Blood
and
Incenfe
into the
Holyeft
o
fHolyes,in
the great
Anniverfary
Sa-
crifice, on
the tenth
day
ofthe
feventh months (on
the
which day alto the
great
Jubilee,
or Joyfull time
of
deliverance, typifying
our
deliverance
by
Chrift,
began
:)
Here
unto
is
added the
Priefihood ofMelchifedec:
whereof
there
is
mention neither
of
its
beginning,nor ending, to
fecure
us
of
the
Con
-,.
tinuance
of
our Mediator
in
the
all
of
his Priefthood,
for ever.
Nowthe
end
of
the
high
Priefts
fo
entring into
this
Holy
place,
was
to
carry
on
the
work
of
Expiation and Attonement
to
perfe&
ion, and compleat
peace
with God,
in
the
behalfe
of
them,for
whom he offered,
without.
And therefore the
Holy
Ghoft faith,
that
his
entrance with
Blood, was,
to
offer
for
hinefelfe,
and
the
Errours
of
the people.Heb.9,7.It
being
but
a
continuation
of
hisOblation
began
without, unto
a
compleat Attonement.
And
therefore there
is
no reali
diffe-
rence between the
efficacy
of
the death
of
Chrift, and
that
of
his
Interceffion,
upon the attuall
Accomplifhment
of
it.
It
being
then
the
compleate
taking
away
of
the
finites
and Errours
of
the
people,as
to
the guilt
of
them,
and the
Continuance
of
their
peace
with God,which
was
intended by the
high
Priefts
entrance with blood into the
Holye
fl
of
Holyes,
that,which
anfwers
thereunto,
or
the deliverance
of
Believers
from the
whole guilt
of
finne,
and their
pre
-
fervation
in
the
Love and
Favour ofGod,
is
the intendment
of
Chrift
in
his
Intercefíon.
Let the
Effels
and
fruits
of
the Oblation
of
Chrift be
bounded
and limited
to
the procuring
of
a
new way
of
Salvation,
without
purchafing
for
any
one
perfon
whatever,power and Grace
to
walke
in
that
way,
and then
exclude
his
Intercefiìon
,
from any influence into
the
prefervation
of
them,