A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

3. The Office of this person, and that was Mediatorial, see it expressed in 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. It was the Office of a surety that he bare, and therefore he is so called, Heb. 7. 22. he was set up and anointed unto that very business, ⟨p. 34⟩that he might reconcile God and man again, whom the sin of man had separated each from the other: So that Jesus Christ neither lived for himself, nor died for himself, but he went through both for us, and that as he was constituted a Mediator; and that is that which properly rendered his work of: Obedience Satisfactory and Meritorious, which otherwise would in no wise have turned to our account: So that in Christ we are not only to consider his personal fitness to be a Redeemer, and to satisfy Justice fully for us, and that he was made man, and took our nature upon him, and was completely furnished with all these graces in his humane nature, whereby he was carried through the work which he was engaged in: but we are also to eye his deputation or appointment to this work in the Covenant of Redemption, which past between his Father and him in the days of Eternity, and in the consideration of that Covenant we are to observe these two things.

3. The Office of this person, and that was Mediatorial, see it expressed in 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. It was the Office of a surety that he bare, and therfore he is so called, Heb. 7. 22. he was set up and anointed unto that very business, ⟨p. 34⟩that he might reconcile God and man again, whom the sin of man had separated each from the other: So that Jesus Christ neither lived for himself, nor died for himself, but he went through both for us, and that as he was constituted a Mediator; and that is that which properly rendred his work of: Obedience Satisfactory and Meritorious, which otherwise would in no wise have turned to our account: So that in Christ we are not only to consider his personal fitness to be a Redeemer, and to satisfie Justice fully for us, and that he was made man, and took our nature upon him, and was compleatly furnished with all these graces in his humane nature, whereby he was carried through the work which he was engaged in: but we are also to eye his deputation or appointment to this work in the Covenant of Redemption, which past between his Father and him in the days of Eternity, and in the consideration of that Covenant we are to observe these two things.