The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

Secondly, By the Lord himself, Gal. 2. 15, 16. What is true of Gods separating Paul to an extraordinary, is true in a measure of all his servants set apart for ordinary work, Mal. 2. 7. For the Church sometimes may not set a man apart, yet the Lord may and doth; and hence (by these sometimes he sends to call a Church before there is a Church to call) and how is such a one set ⟨p. 97⟩apart? not as an ordinary Christian, but as an extraordinary Ambassador, as it were in the room of the Lord Jesus himself; For Christ being Mediator of his Church, two things are required to make peace. 1. To speak to God for us. 2. To speak from God to us; The first he doth by his intercession. But we hear not from him? Yes, for he sets these in his room, and by them he speaks as Mediator to our ears and hearts, 2 Cor. 5. 20. so that if Christ was here present to speak, we would look for the Spirit by him and his Ministry; Now all Messengers of the Lord Jesus are in the room of the Lord Jesus, &c. Nay, if Christ was here, the Spirit would not come but by this means; and hence Christ converts not so many as the Apostles by their Ministry within Judea.

Secondly, By the Lord himself, Gal. 2. 15, 16. What is true of Gods separating Paul to an extraordinary, is true in a measure of all his servants set apart for ordinary work, Mal. 2. 7. For the Church sometimes may not set a man apart, yet the Lord may and doth; and hence (by these sometimes he sends to call a Church before there is a Church to call) and how is such a one set ⟨p. 97⟩apart? not as an ordinary Christian, but as an extraordinary Ambassador, as it were in the room of the Lord Jesus himself; For Christ being Mediator of his Church, two things are required to make peace. 1. To speak to God for us. 2. To speak from God to us; The first he doth by his intercession. But we hear not from him? Yes, for he sets these in his room, and by them he speaks as Mediator to our ears and hearts,