Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

But here I crave leave to dissent, and to offer some things by way of answer.

1st. The distinction between a Mediator of Redemption, and a Mediator of Confirmation only, is not, I think, to be found in Scripture; we read of a Mediator between God and men, not of a Mediator between God and Angels; A Mediator is not a Mediator of one, Gal. 3.20. but of more than one, and those not in amity, as God and Angels are; but at variance, as God and fallen man are. A Mediator (as the word [Greek or Hebrew] imports) is a middle person interposing between parties at variance; but God and holy Angels are not at variance at all, that any should interpose between them: It is congruous, that a Mediator should partake of the same nature with those for whom he mediates, the one Mediator between God and man, is the man Christ Jesus, 1 Tim. 2.5. The substantial mediation must precede the actual one; he that is medium reconciliationis, must be first ⟨p. 85⟩medium participationis; he must partake of our nature, that he may mediate for us. Hence it appears, that Christ not assuming the nature of Angels, hath not a fit nature, in which he may mediate for them; neither indeed do they want a Mediator. Adam in innocency wanted none, much less do the holy Angels, much higher in perfections than he, stand in need of one: It's true, the Apostle saith, that God in Christ doth gather together and reconcile all things in Heaven and Earth; but the (all things) in the Text are to be limited to men only; the things in Heaven are the Spirits of just men there, not the holy Angels; who, because they were never scattered, cannot be gathered; and because they never offended, cannot be reconciled: but if the things in Heaven should reach to Angels, it would not from thence follow, that Christ mediates for Angels; but that he so mediates for men, that the Angels, who before stood off and at a distance from men, are reconciled and at amity with them.