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The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /
The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painful minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughs.The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London / by the late reverend and painfull minister of the gospel, Jeremiah Burroughes.
London: printed by T.C. for John Wright, 1654
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Lastly, he is the way of conveying good to us, as by his satisfaction, so by his intercession: for he is now, and shall for ever be, at the right hand of the Father in glory, making intercession for his people: that is, continually presenting before his Father the work of his mediation, his merits, what he hath done and suffered, and as it were pleading with his Father for the conveyance of all needful mercy and good unto the souls and bodies of his people whom he hath redeemed. As if he should every moment eternally speak thus to the Father: Father, behold here is my blood, my merits, my death, all my sufferings; the work of my humiliation, it is for these; yea for this poor soul, and for that poor soul particularly: for know that Christ thinks not only of the lump of believers in the general, but particularly of every believer, and is continually presenting before the Father his infinite merits, to plead with him for supply of all grace and mercy to us: and thus he comes to be an infinite way of conveyance of good to the souls of his people, and so to be all and in all to them, both here and eternally: that is the third particular; how Christ comes to be the way of conveyance.
Lastly, he is the way of conveying good to us, as by his satisfaction, so by his intercession: for he is now, and shall for ever be, at the right hand of the Father in glory, making intercession for his people: that is, continually presenting before his Father the worke of his mediation, his merits, what he hath done and suffered, and as it were pleading with his Father for the conveyance of all needfull mercy and good unto the souls and bodies of his people whom he hath redeemed. As if he should every moment eternally speake thus to the Father: Father, behold here is my bloud, my merits, my death, all my sufferings; the worke of my humiliation, it is for these; yea for this poor soul, and for that poor soul particularly: for know that Christ thinks not only of the lumpe of believers in the generall, but particularly of every believer, and is continually presenting before the Father his infinite merits, to plead with him for supply of all grace and mercy to us: and thus he comes to be an infinite way of conveyance of good to the souls of his people, and so to be all and in all to them, both here and eternally: that is the third particular; how Christ comes to be the way of conveyance.