Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THERE is one God, saith the Apostle, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2. 5. In that great difference between God and Man occasioned by our Sin and Apostasy from him, which of it self could issue in nothing but the utter Ruin of the whole Race of Mankind, there was none in Heaven or Earth in their Original Nature and Operations, who was meet or able to make up a Righteous Peace between them. Yet must this be done by a Mediator, or cease for ever.

THERE is one God, saith the Apostle, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2. 5. In that great difference between God and Man occasioned by our Sin and Apostacy from him, which of it self could issue in nothing but the utter Ruine of the whole Race of Mankind, there was none in Heaven or Earth in their Original Nature and Operations, who was meet or able to make up a Righteous Peace between them. Yet must this be done by a Mediator, or cease for ever.

THIS Mediator could not be God himself absolutely considered; for a Mediator is not of one, but God is one; Gal. 3. 20. Whatever God might do herein in a way of Sovereign Grace, yet he could not do it in the way of Mediation, which yet was necessary unto his own Glory, as we have at large discoursed elsewhere.

AND as for Creatures, there was none in Heaven or Earth that was meet to undertake this Office. For if one Man sin against another, the Judge shall judge herein; but if a Man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him?