The Priejlhoodof ehrifl. 433 VE S E4. Cameron. de Eccl.eagiz2. pith Doftrine, which diflinguifbeth betweenMediators ofliedemption, and Mediatores of Intercegion,afErming that though the Saints are notredeemers of the world, ' yet they are (as the courtiers of heaven) Mediators of Interceflion for us, and fo may bee fought unto by us. To which 1 anfwer , that wee muff diftinguilh ofinter- ceding, orpraying for another. There is onepriv4te,and another pm61ike , (which fome learned men have obfer- ved in Chrifls o Prayer$:)or prayingout ofChstritie, and out ofhiflice or Office:or thirdly,praying out ofHu- , with feare and trembling, or out ofAurboritie, which is not properly Player, (for Prayer in its firiac(l fenfe is a p;opofing of icqueils for things unmerited, which wee expe& ex vipromiffi out of Godsgratious promife and not ex vi pretii out ofany price or pur- chafe;) but the prefostingofthe willandgoodpleaftere of Chrift to hit Father, that hecmay thereunto put his fealc and content , the &firing of a thing fo, as that bee hath withall a right joyntlyofbellowing it, who doth &fire it. That the Saints in heaven , and the bleffcd Angels doe pray for the State ofthe Church militant, aswell as rejoyceattheir converfion , in as much as charity remai- neth after this life , feemeth to bee granted by Cypriot, and Hierom , neither know I any danger in fo affirming ifrightly underflood. But if fo, they doe it onely exch.:- ritate sitfratres, not exofficiout mediatores. Out ofa ha- bit of charity to the gencrall condition of the Church (for it reacheth not to particularmen) not out ofan office ofmediation, as if thcy were fet up for publIke perfons, appointed not onely to pray for the Church ingeneral!, but toprefent the prayers of particular men to God in their behalfe. Tobee fuck a mediator belongs oncly to Chrifi, becaufe True Mterceffion (as it is a publike, and authoritativea&)isfounded upon the fatisfaaory merits of tlaeperfon interceding. Hce cannot bee a right Ad- vocate, who is not a propitiation too. And therefore the Papifis Cyprian.epig.z. Hieran. lib. ad- veifits Num.
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