USE. 4. Let us Bless God for Christ, Bless God for the MEDIATOR. This is the Most gladsome Tidings that ever was heard of in the world. How did the Angels rejoice and glorify God when Christ was born! One of them said to the Shepherds, Behold I bring you good Tidings of great joy, unto you this day is born a Saviour which is Christ the Lord: and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host, praising GOD, and saying, GLORY be to GOD in the highest, and on Earth Peace; Good-will towards men. Luc. 2. 13. 14. Shall they bless God because there is a Saviour come into the world; and shall not men do so much more, as being more concerned in this good news than the Angels are? This world is full of Troubles: sad News cometh from day to day. But here's Good News from the Heaven of Heavens, that there is a JESUS, that there is a MEDIATOR. Had it not been for this Mediator, every soul of us must have perished. There's no ascending into Heaven but by Jacob's Lad••r, whose Bottom was on earth, and the Top ⟨p. 154⟩of it in heaven, Gen 24. 14. This is true concerning the Mediation of Christ. Had not the Son of GOD taken upon Him the Office of a Mediator, it would have puzzled men and Angels to have answered Eli's Question 1. Sam. 2. 25.) If a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? When Man had forsaken God, Heaven and Earth forsook him, and left him to shift for himself: Now that the LORD should look after lost man, when Sin and Guilt, and Wrath and Hell, and Devils, and all the Powers of Darkness had fallen upon him, is wonderful to consider. O bless His Name; The Mediator has stepped in between our souls and everlasting Burnings. So that now we who have been great sinners may draw nigh to GOD with an humble Boldness; and commune with Him who is upon the Mercy seat. If thou are a true believer, thou mayst think of the Day of Judgement with unspeakable Joy. 1. Joh. 4. 17. Why? He that shall be thy Judge is thy Saviour thy Redeemer, thy MEDIATOR. Though we have to do with GOD the Judge of all, we need not fear, since we are come to JESUS the Mediator of the New Covenant. What shall I say more? By means of Christ the ⟨p. 155⟩MEDIATOR, Believers are made happier than Adam was. One of the Ancients said truly, that Job on the dunghill was happier than Adam in Paradise. Adam lost his happiness, but this the Believer can never do.
USE. 4. Let us Bless God for Christ, Bless God for the MEDIATOR. This is the Most gladsome Tydings that ever was heard of in the world. How did the Angels rejoice and glorify God when Christ was born! One of them said to the Shepherds, Behold I bring you good Tydings of great joy, unto you this day is born a Saviour which is Christ the Lord: and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host, praising GOD, and saying, GLORY be to GOD in the highest, and on Earth Peace; Good-will towards men. Luc. 2. 13. 14. Shall they bless God because there is a Saviour come into the world; and shall not men do so much more, as being more concern'd in this good news than the Angels are? This world is full of Troubles: sad News cometh from day to day. But here's Good News from the Heaven of Heavens, that there is a JESUS, that there is a MEDIATOR. Had it not been for this Mediator, every soul of us must have perished. There's no ascending into Heaven but by Jacob's Lad••r, whose Bottom was on earth, and the Top ⟨p. 154⟩of it in heaven, Gen 24. 14. This is true concerning the Mediation of Christ. Had not the Son of GOD taken upon Him the Office of a Mediator, it would have puzled men and Angels to have answered Eli's Question 1. Sam. 2. 25.) If a man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? When Man had forsaken God, Heaven and Earth forsook him, and left him to shift for himself: Now that the LORD should look after lost man, when Sin and Guilt, and Wrath and Hell, and Devils, and all the Powers of Darkness had fallen upon him, is wonderful to consider. O bless His Name; The Mediator has stept in between our souls and everlasting Burnings. So that now we who have been great sinners may draw nigh to GOD with an humble Boldness; and commune with Him who is upon the Mercyseat. If thou are a true believer, thou mayst think of the Day of Judgement with unspeakable Joy. 1. Joh. 4. 17. Why? He that shall be thy Judge is thy Saviour thy Redeemer, thy MEDIATOR. Though we have to do with GOD the Judge of all, we need not fear, since we are come to JESUS the Mediator of the New Covenant. What shall I say more? By meanes of Christ the ⟨p. 155⟩MEDIATOR, Believers are made happier than Adam was. One of the Ancients said truly, that Job on the dunghil was happier than Adam in Paradise. Adam lost his happiness, but this the Believer can never do.
