Though the law left room for a Mediator, yet God was at liberty whether he would provide one or no: but he has provided Christ, and put him into this Office. Christ stands in that relation of a Mediator, and this implies both duty and authority, to work out all our salvation for us, both as to the purchasing and also the applying of salvation: That Christ Jesus is a Mediator, is set down in express terms: 1 Tim. 2.5. There is one Mediator between God and man, ⟨p. 40⟩the Man Christ Jesus: the word, [Greek or Hebrew] is peculiar to the holy Scripture: Socinus would have it to signify only Gods Interpreter, and it may be that may be the meaning, Gal. 3.19. it was ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator: but the word generally notes one that stands between God and man, to make up the breach that sin had made; that this is intended in the forementioned place, is evident by the next words, ver. 6 who gave himself a ransom for all: so that his mediation consisted in giving himself a ransom: or at least he was such a Mediator as did give himself a ransom; this must also be the meaning of the word, Heb. 9.15. and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of his death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament: they which are ealled may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. There is plainly held forth that he executed his Mediatorly Office, in dying for transgression; and in order to our enjoying an eternal inheritance. The same Mediatorly Office of Christ is held forth, 1 Cor. 8.5, 6. for though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be Gods many and Lords many) but to us there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. The Heathens did distinguish between their Gods into celestial and terrestrial; the celestial and sovereign Gods, they thought to be immortal, of a sublime and pure nature; the terrestrial were the Deified souls of famous men deceased, whose Office it was to be as Mediators and Agents between the sovereign Gods, and mortal men: these they called Baalims or Lords: unto these superior and inferior Gods h•d toes elegantly allude, ver. 6. so that when he says, that to us there is but one Lord, he means one Mediator:
Though the law left room for a Mediator, yet God was at liberty whether he would provide one or no: but he has provided Christ, and put him into this Office. Christ stands in that relation of a Mediator, and this implies both duty and authority, to work out all our salvation for us, both as to the purchasing and also the applying of salvation: That Christ Jesus is a Mediator, is set down in express terms: 1 Tim. 2.5. There is one Mediator between God and man, ⟨p. 40⟩the Man Christ Jesus: the word, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is peculiar to the holy Scripture: Socinus would have it to signifie only Gods Interpreter, and it may be that may be the meaning, Gal. 3.19. it was ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator: but the word generally notes one that stands between God and man, to make up the breach that sin had made; that this is intended in the forementioned place, is evident by the next words, ver. 6 who gave himself a ransome for all: so that his mediation consisted in giving himself a ransom: or at least he was such a Mediator as did give himself a ransom; this must also be the meaning of the word, Heb. 9.15. and for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament, that by means of his death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament: they which are ealled may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. There is plainly held forth that he executed his Mediatorly Office, in dying for transgression; and in order to our injoying an eternal inheritance. The same Mediatorly Office of Christ is held forth, 1 Cor. 8.5, 6. for though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be Gods many and Lords many) but to us there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we in him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. The Heathens did distinguish between their Gods into celestial and terrestial; the celestial and soveraign Gods, they thought to be immortal, of a sublime and pure nature; the terrestial were the Deified souls of famous men deceased, whose Office it was to be as Mediators and Agents between the soveraign Gods, and mortal men: these they called Baalims or Lords: unto these superior and inferior Gods h•d toes elegantly allude, ver. 6. so that when he says, that to als there is but one Lord, he means one Mediator:
