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An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
When the Romans would have no other Gods, but what were approved of by the Senate, Tertullian tells them, Apud vos de humano arbitratu Divinitas pensitatur; 1nifi homini Deus placuerit, Deus non erit: But as long as we find Imputed Righteousness in Scripture, we need not seek a Probatū est from humane laws or reason.
When the Romans would have no other Gods, but what were approved of by the Senate, Tertullian tells them, Apud vos de humano arbitratu Divinitas pensitatur; 1nifi homini Deus placuerit, Deus non erit: But as long as we find Imputed Righteousness in Scripture, we need not seek a Probatū est from humane laws or reason.
- 1Apost. cap. 5.
Let us now try, 1whether the Notion of a Mediator can do any better service than the Notion of a Surety. Dr. Owen saith, That Christ fulfilled all Righteousness as he was Mediator, and that whatever he did as Mediator, he did it for them whose Mediator he was, and in whose stead, and for whose good he executed the Office of a Mediator before ⟨p. 424⟩God; and hence is it that his complete and perfect Obedience to the Law is reckoned to us: But that Christ fulfilled all Righteousness as he was Mediator must have good proof, the Notion of a Mediator includes no such thing. A Mediator is one who interposes between two differing parties; but was it ever heard of yet, that it was the Office of a Mediator to perform the Terms and Conditions himself: Moses was the Mediator of the first Covenant, Gal. 3.9. and his Office was to receive the Law from God, and to deliver it to the people, and to command them to observe the Rites and Sacrifices and Expiations, which God had ordained; but he was not to fulfil the Righteousness of the Law for the whole Congregation: Thus Christ is now the Mediator of a better Covenant, and his Office required, that he should preach the Gospel, which contains the Terms of peace between God and men; and since God would not enter into Covenant with sinners without the intervention of a Sacrifice; he dies too as a Sacrifice and Propitiation for the sins of the World, and confirms and seals this new Covenant with his own Blood; and being risen from the dead, he executes this Office of Mediator with power and