The Fourth Proposition is this, viz. That the blessed §4and glorious titles that are given to Jesus Christ, in the ⟨p. 110⟩holy Scriptures, do clearly and strongly evidence, that there was a Covenant of Redemption passed between God the father and Jesus Christ. He is called a Mediator of the Covenant of reconciliation, interceding for, and procuring of it; and that not by a simple entreaty, but by giving himself over to the father; (calling for satisfaction to justice, that reconciliation might go on) for paying a compensatory price, sufficient to satisfy divine justice for the Elect▪ There is one God, and one Mediator between 1God and man (to wit, God incarnate) the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all (to wit, his Elect children) to be testified in due time. Let me glance a little upon the words, One Mediator between God and men; in the Greek, it is one Mediator of God and men; which may refer, either to the two parties betwixt which he deals, pleading for God to men, and for men to God, or to the two natures, Mediator of God having the divine nature, and of men, having the humane nature upon him; one Mediator, not of Redemption only (as the Papists grant) but of intercession too: we need no other master of requests in heaven, but the man Christ Jesus; who being so near us, in the matter of his incarnation, will never be strange to us, in the business of intercession. A ransom, the Greek [Greek or Hebrew], is a counter price, such as we could never have paid, but must have remained, and even rotted in prison, but for our all-sufficient surety and Saviour: The ransom that Christ paid, was a real testimony of his Mediatorship betwixt God and man, whereby he reconciled both. The man Christ Jesus; Paul speaks not this to exclude his divinity, from this office of Mediatorship, for he is God manifested in the flesh, and God hath 2purchased his Church by his own blood: But to show, that in his humane nature, he paid the ransom for us, and that as man, he is like unto us; and therefore, all sorts and3 ranks of men have a free access by faith unto him, and to his sacrifice. He is also called a Redeemer, I know that 4my redeemer liveth. The word Redeemer in the Hebrew is very emphatical, Goel, for it signifieth a kinsman, near ⟨p. 111⟩allied unto him; one that was bone of his bone, and flesh5 of his flesh:
The Fourth Proposition is this, viz. That the blessed §4and glorious titles that are given to Jesus Christ, in the ⟨p. 110⟩holy Scriptures, do clearly and strongly evidence, that there was a Covenant of Redemption passed between God the father and Jesus Christ. He is called a Mediatour of the Covenant of reconciliation, interceding for, and procuring of it; and that not by a simple intreaty, but by giving himself over to the father; (calling for satisfaction to justice, that reconciliation might go on) for paying a compensatory price, sufficient to satisfie divine justice for the Elect▪ There is one God, and one Mediatour between 1God and man (to wit, God incarnate) the man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all (to wit, his Elect children) to be testified in due time. Let me glance a little upon the words, One Mediatour between God and men; in the Greek, it is one Mediatour of God and men; which may refer, either to the two parties betwixt which he deals, pleading for God to men, and for men to God, or to the two natures, Mediatour of God having the divine nature, and of men, having the humane nature upon him; one Mediatour, not of Redemption only (as the Papists grant) but of intercession too: we need no other master of requests in heaven, but the man Christ Jesus; who being so near us, in the matter of his incarnation, will never be strange to us, in the business of intercession. A ransom, the Greek 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is a counter price, such as we could never have paid, but must have remained, and even rotted in prison, but for our all-sufficient surety and Saviour: The ransom that Christ paid, was a real testimony of his Mediatorship betwixt God and man, whereby he reconciled both. The man Christ Jesus; Paul speaks not this to exclude his divinity, from this office of Mediatorship, for he is God manifested in the flesh, and God hath 2purchased his Church by his own blood: But to shew, that in his humane nature, he paid the ransom for us, and that as man, he is like unto us; and therefore, all sorts and3 ranks of men have a free access by faith unto him, and to his sacrifice. He is also called a Redeemer, I know that 4my redeemer liveth. The word Redeemer in the Hebrew is very emphatical, Goel, for it signifieth a kinsman, near
- 11 Tim. 2. 5, 6.
- 21 Tim 3. 16. Act. 20 28.
- 3Heb. 2. 10.
- 4Job. 19. 25.
- 5Some read the words thus, I know, that my kinsman, or he that is near to me liveth. Ruth 3. 9, 12, 13. cap. 4. 4, 5.
