CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Argum. 3 3. A Third Argument shall be From the Mediator of this Covenant, or the way to ratify and confirm these Gracious Promises, which are from the first to the last, that we shall have Everlasting Glory from Predestination to Glorification, and that is by Christs blood, So that Christ is become their Mediator, their Head, and they his Members; The Covenant is confirmed by the Death of Christ, and the Sacraments are visible Seals to confirm this, 2 Corinth. 2.20. All the Promises of God are in Christ Yea and Amen: There is not Yea and Nay, but a sure infallibility in them; Hence this Priesthood of Christ and our Blessing in him, as Abraham's Seed is said to have a Promise, and an Oath to confirm it. Hebr. 6.18. That by two Immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, we might have strong Consolation: Christ then by his Blood purchased these Privileges for us, he obtained by his Death our Salvation▪ and his Priesthood for this purpose was confirmed by an Oath; How then can we ever think or imagine that they should perish who have such preservation and Security provided for them: Indeed we see the Angels, and Adam though full of Grace to Apostatize, and the Godly man though weak in Grace, and surrounded with many Temptations, yet safely preserved, but the Reason is plain, They have a Mediator of this New Covenant, who by his Death will certainly bring them to Glory, for if this were not so, but all depended upon mans indifferent power; Christ might have died, and not one man have been saved, who cannot but detest and abhor such a thought, that by the Arminian Position Christ might have suffered and endured all those Agonies, and not one be saved, all might have been in vain, but the Scripture speaks otherwise, Isaiah 53.11. The work of the Lord shall prosper in his Hand; He shall see his Seed and the Travel of his Soul, and shall be satisfied: Christ would not have been satisfied in his Soul, had he not seen the Fruit and Event of his Agonies and Sufferings, and that such persons were saved for whom he died.

Argum. 3 3. A Third Argument shall be From the Mediatour of this Covenant, or the way to ratifie and confirm these Gracious Promises, which are from the first to the last, that we shall have Everlasting Glory from Predestination to Glorification, and that is by Christs bloud, So that Christ is become their Mediatour, their Head, and they his Members; The Covenant is confirmed by the Death of Christ, and the Sacraments are visible Seals to confirme this, 2 Corinth. 2.20. All the Promises of God are in Christ Yea and Amen: There is not Yea and Nay, but a sure infallibility in them; Hence this Priesthood of Christ and our Blessing in him, as Abrahams Seed is said to have a Promise, and an Oath to confirm it.