Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1. His interceding with his Father for their relief, Zech 1. 12. Christ intercedeth on our behalf not only in respect of our sins, but also our sufferings; and when the work of our Afflictions is accomplished, we shall have the relief he intercedes for. The Father always hears him^a. And we have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us, on the intercession of Jesus Christ. Believers are unacquainted with their own condition, if they look upon their mercies as dispensed in a way of common providence. And this may indeed be a cause why we esteem them no more, are no more thankful for them, nor fruitful in the enjoyment of them; we see not how, by what means, nor on what account they are dispensed to us. The Generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevour'd, merely on the account of the Intercession of the Lord Jesus. His Compassionateness hath been the fountain of their deliverances. Hence often times he rebukes their sufferings and Afflictions, that they shall not act to the utmost upon them, when they are under them. He is with them when they pass through fire and water. Isa. 43. 2, 3.

1. His interceding with his Father for their releife, Zech 1. 12. Christ intercedeth on our behalfe not only in respect of our sinnes, but also our sufferings; and when the worke of our Afflictions is accomplished, we shall have the reliefe he interceds for. The Father always heares him^a. And we have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of paine, freedome from any evill that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us, on the intercession of Jesus Christ. Believers are unacquainted with their own condition, if they looke upon their mercys as dispensed in a way of common providence. And this may indeed be a cause why we esteem them no more, are no more thankefull for them, nor fruitfull in the enjoyment of them; we see not how, by what meanes, nor on what account they are dispensed to us. The Generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevour'd, meerly on the account of the Intercession of the Lord Jesus. His Compassionatenesse hath been the fountaine of their deliverances. Hence often times he rebukes their sufferings and Afflictions, that they shall not act to the utmost upon them, when they are under them. He is with them when they passe through fire and water.