Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

Fourthly, Christ is a fit Mediator; because he fully knew what would please and satisfy his father. If a man should come to be a mediator, to reconcile two that are at difference, if indeed he knew the mind of the Party offended fully and throughly, we would rather choose such a man to make up the Breach, such a man indeed that doth understand to a hair what will satisfy the offended Party is fit to be a Mediator. All the Angels in Heaven do not know like unto Jesus Christ, fully, and throughly the mind of God, or what it is that will satisfy him: it is only Jesus Christ who was with the father, and lay in his very bosom from all eternity, that knows fully what will satisfy the wrong that is done to the father, and therefore he alone was fittest to undertake this work.

Fourthly, Christ is a fit Mediator; because he fully knew what would please and satisfie his father. If a man should come to be a mediator, to reconcile two that are at difference, if indeed he knew the mind of the Party offended fully and throughly, we would rather chuse such a man to make up the Breach, such a man indeed that doth understand to a hair what wil satisfie the offended Party is fit to be a Mediator. All the Angels in Heaven do not know like unto Jesus Christ, fully, and throughly the mind of God, or what it is that wil satisfie him: it is onely Jesus Christ who was with the father, and lay in his very bosom from all eternity, that knows fully what wil satisfie the wrong that is done to the father, and therefore he alone was fittest to undertake this work.

Fifthly, Christ is a fit Mediator in this, That God the father doth infinitely love him, that he is infinitely dear to the father; and you know that it is a special ingredient for those to have that are to be Reconcilers, that they should be dear one to another, especially dear to the party that is offended. If a poor man hath offended a rich man in a Town, and he saith within himself, O! that I were reconciled unto such a one. If he can get one that is the intimate friend that that rich man hath in all the world to speak unto him in his behalf, he will conclude, that certainly the business shall have good success, and that this friend will prevail. Thus it is with our Mediator; he who is our Reconciler unto God, is infinitely dear unto the father, God the father doth infinitely delight in him; and therefore whatsoever he shall say, or do, must needs infinitely please God the father. This is our Mediator who is come to reconcile us unto God, he can say, and do nothing but it shall infinitely please, and delight the father.