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

The Doctor tell us, ¹That of this expression, as Mediator, there is a double sense, it may be taken strictly, as relating solely to the Mediator, and so Christ may be said to do as Mediator, only what he did in obedience to the Law, (that is only what he did as Mediator, which is a pretty Observation:) But in the sense now insisted on (that is, not strictly as Mediator, but as not Mediator, whatever Christ did, as a man subject to the Law, he did as Mediator, because he did it as part of the duty incumbent on him, who undertook so to be: The meaning is, that he, who was Mediator, being bound to do such things, though not as Mediator, but as a man subject to the Law; yet he did them as Mediator, because he was a Mediator who did them, which is such an exposition of Quâ, as subtlest Schoolmen never yet thought of.

The Doctor tell us, ¹That of this exexpression, as Mediator, there is a double sence, it may be taken strictly, as relating solely to the Mediator, and so Christ may be said to do as Mediator, only what he did in obedience to the Law, (that is only what he did as Mediator, which is a pretty Observation:) But in the sence now insisted on (that is, not strictly as Mediator, but as not Mediator, whatever Christ did, as a man subject to the Law, he did as Mediator, because he did it as part of the duty incumbent on him, who undertook so to be: The meaning is, that he, who was Mediator, being bound to do such things, though not as Mediator, but as a man subject to the Law; yet he did them as Mediator, because he was a Mediator who did them, which is such an exposition of Quâ, as subtilest Schoolmen never yet thought of.

1. 1Mr. Sherlock.

I suppose there is no need of the subtle Schoolmen,¹ who yet sometimes take Quâ specificativè, sometimes repliducativè: I suppose the Doctor wants only a fair Interpreter, he tells us expressly, pag. 182. God sent Christ as a Mediator to do and