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DIRECTION IV.

4. Next this, Be sure that you deeply apprehend the Gracious Nature, Disposition and Office of the Mediator JESUS CHRIST.

Though there can no more be said of the Gracious Nature of the Son, then of the Father's, even, that his Goodness is Infinite; yet these two advantages this Consideration will add unto the former. 1. You will see here Goodness and Mercy in its condescension, and nearer to you then in the Divine Nature alone it was. Our thoughts ⟨p. 29⟩of God are necessarily more strange, because of our Infinite distance from the Godhead: and therefore our apprehensions of Gods Goodness will be the less working, because less familiar. But in Christ God is come down into our Nature, and so Infinite Goodness and Mercy is incarnate. The man Christ Jesus is able now to save to the utmost all that come to God by him. We have a Merciful High Priest that is acquainted with our Infirmities. 2. Herein we see the Will of God putting forth it self for our help in the most astonishing way that could be imagined. Here is more then merely a Gracious inclination. Its an Office of saving and showing Mercy also that Christ hath undertaken; even to seek and to save that which was lost: to bring home straying souls to God: to be the great Peace-maker between God and man: to Reconcile God to man and man to God: and so to be the Head and Husband of his people. Certainly the Devil strangely wrongeth poor troubled souls in this point; that he can bring them to have such hard suspicious thoughts of Christ, and so much to overlook the Glory of Mercy which so shineth in the face of the Son of Mercy it self. How can we more contradict the Nature of Christ, and the Gospel-description of him, then to think him a