The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

14. And how agreeable is this doctrine of the Sacrifice of Christ, to the common doctrine of Sacrificing, which hath been received throughout almost all the world! And who can imagine any other original of that practice, so early and so universally obtaining, than either divine revelation, or somewhat even in nature, which beareth witness to the necessity ⟨p. 104⟩of a demonstration of Gods Justice and displeasure against sin?

15. How wisely is it determined of God, that he who undertakes all •is, should be Man, and yet more than Man, even God? That the Monarch of Mankind, and the Mediator, and the Teacher of Man, and the Sacrifice for sin, should not be only of another kind; but that he be one that is fit to be familiar with man, and to be interested naturally in his concerns; and one that is by nature and nearness capable of these undertakings and relations? And yet that he be so high and near the Father, as may put a sufficient value on his works, and make him most meet to mediate for us?

15. How wisely is it determined of God, that he who undertakes all •is, should be Man, and yet more than Man, even God? That the Monarch of Mankind, and the Mediatour, and the Teacher of Man, and the Sacrifice for sin, should not be only of another kind; but that he be one that is fit to be familiar with man, and to be interested naturally in his concerns; and one that is by nature and nearness capable of these undertakings and relations? And yet that he be so high and near the Father, as may put a sufficient value on his works, and make him most meet to mediate for us?