An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

But what ever becomes of the distinction, ¹there is a very deep fetch in it; the observing of which will discover the whole mystery of the Person of Christ, and our Union to him: For these men consider that Christ saves as Mediator, and not merely considered as God or man, they imagine that we receive Grace and Salvation from Christ's Person, just as we do water from a Conduit, or a Largess from a Prince; that it flows to us from our Union to his Person, and therefore they dress up the Person of the Mediator with all those personal Graces and Excellencies, which may make him a fit Saviour, that those who are united to his Person, need not fear missing of Salvation; hence they ransack all the boundless perfections of the Deity, and what ever they can fancy as comfort to Sinners; this is a personal Grace of the Mediator, they consider the effects of his ⟨p. 236⟩Mediation, and what ever great things are spoken of his Gospel or Religion or Intercession, these serve as personal Graces too, that all our hopes may be built not on the Gospel-Covenant, but on the Person of Christ; so that the dispute now lies between the Person of Christ and his Gospel, which must be the foundation of our hope, which is the way to life and happiness.

But what ever becomes of the distinction, ¹there is a very deep fetch in it; the observing of which will discover the whole mystery of the Person of Christ, and our Ʋnion to him: For these men consider that Christ saves as Mediator, and not meerly considered as God or man, they imagine that we receive Grace and Salvation from Christ's Person, just as we do water from a Conduit, or a Largess from a Prince; that it flows to us from our Ʋnion to his Person, and therefore they dress up the Person of the Mediator with all those personal Graces and Excellencies, which may make him a fit Saviour, that those who are united to his Person, need not fear missing of Salvation; hence they ransack all the boundless perfections of the Deity, and what ever they can fancy as comfort to Sinners; this is a personal Grace of the Mediator, they consider the effects of his ⟨p. 236⟩Mediation, and what ever great things are spoken of his Gospel or Religion or Intercession, these serve as personal Graces too, that all our hopes may be built not on the Gospel-Covenant, but on the Person of Christ; so that the dispute now lies between the Person of Christ and his Gospel, which must be the foundation of our hope, which is the way to life and happiness.