A Body of Practical Divinity

I shall wave the Context, and only speak of that which concerns our present Purpose: Having discoursed of the Covenant of Grace, I shall speak now of the Mediator of the Covenant, and the Restorer of lapsed Sinners, JESUS the Mediator of the Covenant.

I shall wave the Context, and only speak of that which concerns our present Purpose: Having discours'd of the Covenant of Grace, I shall speak now of the Mediator of the Covenant, and the Restorer of lapsed Sinners, IESUS the Mediator of the Covenant.

There are several Names and Titles in Scripture given to Christ, as the Great Restorer of Mankind: 1. Sometimes he is called a Saviour, Matth. 1.21. His name shall be called Jesus. The Hebrew word for Jesus Joshuang, signifies a Saviour; and whom he saves from Hell he saves from Sin: where Christ is a Saviour he is a Sanctifier, Matth. 1.21. He shall save his people from their sins. There is no other Saviour, Acts 4.12. [Greek or Hebrew], Neither is there salvation in any other. As there was but one Ark to save the World from drowning, so there is but one Jesus to save Sinners from damning. As Naomi said to her Daughters-in-law, Ruth 1.11. Are there yet any more sons in my womb? So hath God any other Sons in the Womb of his Eternal Decree, to be Saviours to us, besides Christ? Job 28.13. Where shall wisdom be found? the deep saith it is not in me, and the sea saith it is not with me. Let me allude, Where shall Salvation be found? The Angel saith it is not in me; Morality saith it is not in me; the Ordinance saith it is not in me: Christ alone is the Well-spring of Life, the Ordinance is the Conduit-pipe that conveys Salvation, but Christ is the Spring that feeds it, Neither is there salvation in any other.