First, What is the sense and import of this word [Greek or Hebrew] a Mediator, and the true sense and importance of it,1 is a middle person, or one that interposes betwixt two Parties at variance, to make peace betwixt them. So that Satan is medium disjungens, ⟨p. 85⟩a medium of discord; so Christ is medium conjungens, a medium of Concord and Peace. And he is such a middler, both in respect of his person, and office, in respect of his person, he is a middler,2 that is one that hath the same nature both with God, and us, true God, and true man, and in respect of his office or work, which is to interpose or transact the business of reconciliation between us and God. The former some call his substantial, the latter his energetical or operative meditation, though I rather conceive that which is called his substantial mediation, is but the aptitude of his person to execute the mediatorial function. And that it doth not constitute two kinds of mediation, his being a middle Person, fits and capacitates him to stand in the midst, betwixt God, and us. This I say is the proper sense of the word. Though [Greek or Hebrew], a Mediator be rendered variously. Sometimes an Umpire, or Arbitrator. Sometimes a Messenger, that goes betwixt two Persons. Sometimes an Interpreter, imparting the mind of one, to another. Sometimes a Reconciler, or Peace-maker. And in all these senses Christ is the [Greek or Hebrew] the middle Person, in his mediation of reconciliation, o• intercession, that is, either in his mediating by suffering, to make peace, as he did on Earth; or to continue, and maintain peace: as he doth in Heaven, by meritorious intercession. Both these ways he is the only Mediator, and he manageth this his mediation.
First, What is the sence and import of this word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a Mediator, and the true sence and importance of it,1 is a middle person, or one that interposes betwixt two Parties at variance, to make peace betwixt them. So that Satan is medium disjungens, ⟨p. 85⟩a medium of discord; so Christ is medium conjungens, a medium of Concord and Peace. And he is such a middler, both in respect of his person, and office, in respect of his person, he is a middler,2 that is one that hath the same nature both with God, and us, true God, and true man, and in respect of his office or work, which is to interpose or transact the business of reconciliation between us and God. The former some call his substantial, the latter his evergitical or operative meditation, though I rather conceive that which is call'd his substantial mediation, is but the aptitude of his person to execute the mediatorial function. And that it doth not constitute two kinds of mediation, his being a middle Person, fits and capacitates him to stand in the midst, betwixt God, and us. This I say is the proper sence of the word. Though 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Mediator be rendred variously. Sometimes an Umpire, or Arbitrator. Sometimes a Messenger, that goes betwixt two Persons. Sometimes an Interpreter, imparting the mind of one, to another. Sometimes a Reconciler, or Peace-maker. And in all these sences Christ is the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the middle Person, in his mediation of reconciliation, o• intercession, that is, either in his mediating by suffering, to make peace, as he did on Earth; or to continue, and maintain peace: as he doth in Heaven, by meritorious intercession. Both these ways he is the only Mediator, and he manageth this his mediation.
- 1Vocamus mediatorem •um qui inter aliquos diledentes aut certe non conjunctos medium se interpo•it ut cos redigot ad uncordiam, vel novo foedere conjungat.
- 2Nom•n media to is in sud propria significatione con est nomen substantie, sed muceris, & officii substantia igitur & operatio, non cō stituunt duo gene•a mediationis sed unum & idem. Dr. Ames Bellarm lib. 5. p. 117. Mediator dicitu Christus, tun quâ medius, tum quam media•s, medius persona, medians, officio, Trelcot. Justit. p. 78.Nom•n media to is in sud propria significatione con est nomen substantie, sed muceris, & officii substantia igitur & operatio, non cō stituunt duo gene•a mediationis sed unum & idem. Dr. Ames Bellarm lib. 5. p. 117. Mediator dicitu Christus, tun quâ medius, tum quam media•s, medius persona, medians, officio, Trelcot. Justit. p. 78.
