Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

3. A consideration that God hath set up Christ as a Mediator: that he was incarnate in order to reconciliation, and salvation of souls, but for the accomplishment of this design Christ had never been incarnate; the very end of his uniting flesh unto him, was in order to the reconciliation of us poor souls, alas we had sinned, and by sin deserved everlasting damnation, but to save us, and to satisfy himself, God takes our nature and joins it to his Son, and calls that Christ a Saviour: This is the Gospel-notion of Christ, for what is Christ, but God himself in our nature, transacting our peace? In this Christ is that fullness, and righteousness, and love, and bowels to receive the first acts of our faith; and to have immediate union and communion with us; indeed we pitch not our faith first or immediately on God himself; yet at last we come to him, and our faith lives in God (as one saith sweetly) before it is aware, through the sweet intervention of that person which is God himself, only called by another name, the Lord Jesus Christ; and these are the helps of faith in reference to our unworthiness, Gods justice, and the want of a Mediator betwixt God and us.

3. A consideration that God hath set up Christ as a Mediator: that he was incarnate in order to reconciliation, and salvation of souls, but for the accomplishment of this design Christ had never been incarnate; the very end of his uniting flesh unto him, was in order to the reconciliation of us poor souls, alas we had sinned, and by sin deserved everlasting damnation, but to save us, and to satisfie himself, God takes our nature and joyns it to his Son, and calls that Christ a Saviour: This is the Gospel-notion of Christ, for what is Christ, but God himself in our nature, transacting our peace? In this Christ is that fulness, and righteousness, and love, and bowels to receive the first acts of our faith; and to have immediate union and communion with us; indeed we pitch not our faith first or immediately on God himself; yet at last we come to him, and our faith lives in God (as one saith sweetly) before it is aware, through the sweet intervention of that person which is God himself, only called by another name, the Lord Jesus Christ; and these are the helps of faith in reference to our unworthiness, Gods justice, and the want of a Mediator betwixt God and us.