318 if they do, it is to no purpofe. Second glory and power, not only, as he is reafon : God is the higheft judge, and God, but alto as he is man, beingexal- his tribunal feat is the fupreme judge- ted in his Kingdome and Priel -hood, ment feat; therefore from thence there and declared King and head of his is no appealing. As amongft men, per- Church,beforeGod and the Angels, ha- fons accufed or condemned,may appeal ving all things fubje& to him.Ol which till they come to the higheft Court ; fingulardignity and honour given to fo being abfolved before Gods tri- him by his Father, read Mat. 28. 18. bunal feat,there is no further accufati Ephef r 20, 21,22. Phil. 2.9.Col. 2.15. on to be feared;all appeals from thence, Joh.13.3 be void and of no force. T 1 M. What it meant by this, that be T t M. What ufeis to be made of this maker requefffor us in heaven Doctrine ? S 1 L. That as he once merited our S t L. It nttift ferve to tlrengthen falvation in earth by dying, fo he now and comfort us, in the terror of confci- continually preferves it for us in hea- ence, being frighted with the guilt of ven by his interceflion for us ; which is fin, the fentence ofthe Law ,the cruelty not now in humiliation by kneeling of Satan : in as much as these either upon his knees, as in the dales of his dare not appear before God, to accufe flesh, nor as the Spirit doth by furring and charge us ; or if they do it, it is but up requefis for us : but he now maketh loft labour, since God the judge hath requeff by the vertue and merit of his difcharged us. Secondly, as it (Mews the death, appealing his Fathers wrath,and happineffe of juflified perlons, fo it be- turning his favour towards us, fo often wrayes the great mifery of fuch as doe as we fin ofinfirmity, and leek for par- not beleeve; becaufe they be fubje& to don in his name. the accufation of fin and Satan them- T i M, Tell us difintíly in what fèlves,and ofthe world,and to the con - things doth this interclion of Chrifi con- demnation of God and his Law. lift ? T o hi. So do the bele vers, becaufe they S i L. In four things : Firfi, in his hdvefinfiul in !them, and Cods jufiice muff appearing for us before God, Heb. 9. needs condemn fin : how doth the Apo file an- 24. Secondly, in his fatisfa&ion once fiver this afault ? performed to Gods juflice for us, Lieb. S t L. Thus : that Chrift being dead, 10. 12,14. Thirdly, in that his will is, he hath in his death made fatisfa &ion ; that this fatisfa &ion fhould ever Read and where fatisfa&ion is made to divine all his members before God, Htb. so. juftice, there is no caufe to fear con- to. Laftly,the confent of God his Fa- den-motion, which doth never proceed ther,reftingin this fatisfa&ion and will but againft perfonswho cannot fatisfie, ofhis Scn, Sob. i 1.42. neither by others, nor themfelves. T t M. What is thebenefit that beleevers T i M. Tea but what can a dead manpro- have by this interceffion of Chrift, to whom fit us ? alone this honour is peculiar ? S i L. Nothing at all , had death S 1 L. Exceeding great : for it quits (wallowed him up and fubdued him ; them from all fear of condemnation by but Chrift once dead is rifen again, and Gods Juftice, in refpe& of their fins, now fitteth at the right hand of God. becaufe where Chrift becomes Patron T t M. Hath God a right hand ? or doth for to defend againft the fentence of Chriff fit in heaven? damnation, it is in vain for Sin, Law, S L L. No not fo, for in heaven be or Satan, to attempt any thing againft no feats,and God isa Spirit ;and there- beleevers. Even as an innocent per - fore is no bodily fubftance having flesh- fon is fafe, fo long as he hath his lea', ly members ; but "the meaning of this ned advocate to anfwer things ob- phrafe is, that Chrift liveth in heaven je&ed,and to plead his innocency : and bleffedly, and reigneth in exceeding as one accufed unto a Prince, is well as lon An Expofition upon Chap. $ A fpeech borrowed from Kings, who fet at their right hand th tir chief and greatefOf- figers and favourites, as sorer... irren Bath- Jbeba,, clin. 2. 19.
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