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The
Influence
ofChrift's
Interceßion
into
the Per
kit
,of
Sts.
C./X.4:12,13.
conditions,
that
they may be
fo
preferved
by
his
Father,
provided they
pre-
225
ferve themfelves, and
continue
Believers,
on
condition they continue
to be-
lieve; and,
if
this
be
of
a
vile
and
unnsorthy
import,the
Gofpell
is
fo
too
and one
of
the molt
eminent
Graces,
that
is
inwrapped
in
the New Covenant,is
fo
too.
What
there
is
farther
in M.Goodn'in
Ses.34.Pag. 249,250.
unto
this
Argu-
ment,
is
either
a
meere repetition
of
what
was
fpoken before,
or
a preffing
of
4'
12
,
Confequences upon' fuck fuppofalls, as he
is
pleated
to
make, concerning
the
Do
&rive
that
he doth
oppofe
;
As
we
cannot hinder
any man from making
what
fuppofals
they
pleafe,
and
fuiting inferences
to
them
,
manifetting
their
íkill
in caffing
downe what themfelves
Pet
up,
fo
we
are not
in
the
leaft
con-
cerned
in fuch
Theatrical! conteffs.
What
it
is,
that
we.
teach
of
the
Interceffion
of
Chrift for
I3elievers,
hath
§:t3.
been
fufficiently
explayned;
The
end, and aime
of
it 'is,
that
they
maybe
J
ept,
that
they may
not
be
loft,
that
the evill
one
may
not
touch
them,
that
they
may be
Saved
to
the utncoft,
and
kept
by
the
Power
of
God unto
Salvation;
All
that
the
Lord
Jefus
bath for
his
Church, either by
bis oblation,
or
his Inter=
ce
/on,
procured, or
doth
procure, being made
out unto
them by
the
Holy
and
Bleffed
Spirit, which he fent them from
his
Father,
as
the
firft fruits
of
his undertaking for
them,
by,
and
in
the
ufe
of
fuch
meanes
and
wayes,
as
he hath appointed for them
to
walke in, in reference
to
the end propofed:
He
Intercedes
that through
fupplyes
of that
spirit,
their Faith falle not, that
no
temptation
prevaile
againe them, that
they may
have
fuitable helpesin
time
of
need, and
fo
be preferved, according
to the tenor
of
that
San
&ifica
-
tion,which he
is
pleafed
to
give them
in
this life,which
is
imperfelt,
not
from
all
finnes,
(
for it
is
the
will
of
God,
to
keepe
them
and
walke
with them
in
a
Covenant
of
pardoning Mercy,)
not
abfolutely, from this,
or that great
Ernie,
as
is
evident
in
the
cafe
of
David
and
Peter,
whereof,
under
fuck finnes,
-the one loft
not the
Spirit,
nor the
other
his
Faith,
but
from fuck
finnes,
or
filch
a
courfe or
way,
in
and under
finne,
as
would dïfappoint him,
and
make
bis
defires
fruftrate,
as
to
the end
firft
propofed,
of
bringing them
to
Glory;
fo
that,
as
the intendment ofhis
Oblation
is,
meritorioufly, and by
way
of
procurement,
to take
away all
our
finnes
whatfoever; and yet
in
the
applica-
tion
of
it unto
us,
as
to the
taking
of
them away,
by
purifying
us to
be
an
Holy
People
unto himfelfe,
it
is
not
perfe&ed and
compleated
at
once,
nor the
worke thereofconfu'mmated,
but by
degrees;
fo in his interceffion,
which
re
fpeð
the
fame perfons
and
things with
his
Oblation,he puts
in
for
Our
de-
liverance from all
finnes,
&
the power of
them,but
fo
and
in
a
fuch
manner,
as
the nature
of
our
prefent condition, whilft
we
are in
viii;
and the conditi-
on
ofthe
Covenant, whereunto
God hath gracioufly' taken
us,
doth re-
quire.
Through
the
Goodneffe
of
God, we have
now
brought
this
Part
to
an
end. They,who are
in
any meafure acquainted,in what ftraights, under what
4'
13
prefling employments, and
urgent
Avocations,
and
in
what
fpace
of
time
this
offering was
provided for
the
Santíuary
of
God, will
accept
it
in
him,
whole
it
is,
and fromwhom it
was
received.
Gg
CAP.X.