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PdrtIL
thtj^ Ifeuniud to Chrijl ifjFgiil:
become thefeed ef the woma»,andtfthoM wilt heakjheJive/j headflat
hy
giving thyfoHlAfacrificefirJin, then'Jwill re^ttrdtbeefir
it ) I \>ri/i prolong thy dxyes and thou Jhalt fee thyfeedjf. 5 5.10 /
12. 50. 7-/. 45. 16.7/. 8p. 4. In all thcfe places the elcd are called
chc feed or the children ofChrift the mediacor,namcly bccaufe
God gave then to Chrill; Hf^.2. i^.or eleded them onto the adcpcion
otTons in and through the mediator :
for he orJained Chuft
H9t
to be the Meritorious procuring caufe of their Adop:ionj£^. 1.4,^,
Chrifi fubmits to tbefe conditions and faith,
facrifice A/idoferjng
ti/oM rvoHldfi not have, but a b^dy hafi th»u prepared me : then
/'aid If lo I come to do tby will God the doing
-^ ef which wi/l
we ar efan c}ified(01 freed from fin, and fb made ric to be the children
of Gcd)^;' the offering of the body cf lefm (^hrifl once fir all,
Ht^. 10.7/40.Hence it isevident that Chriil ii our Fatherbccaufe
by his ficriHce of atonement he hach procured his Fathers atonement
f( r our Redemption, JuHirication, and Adopti)nj and
thercforecJIftf/Jr/ mai^;o/ he thy Father that
hath bought th(c\ Den. 32. ($. Ift, 64. 8.
5. The holy Spirit i« our Father alfo in the firft ad of our fpiritual
generation, becaufe.he is the principal inllrumentalcaufc of
our new bitth, and ilierefbre he may veil be called lur Fatherfor
if T^«/ might truly callhim!< IfaFathi-roflouN, becaufc he
was a Tub- ordinate infirumem in ihcirnewbuth ;i 0'-.4.i irit -^
Iohn 5.5.6,
8. that is t Qy, iOi\'.fivorda>uiff>irit.
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Haice alfo we may (ee the realon why our Saviour taught us to
pray fnot to any ore perfonlntl.e Trinity fevcraily,
butjioali
the Trinity f)intly under the name lather Sa) mgwhenyefray fay^
V o»r Father which art in heaze^^. A fat. 6.9.
2. Hence we may learn that none can m.ike an effcdual prayer
except he pray to all the Trinity ^
nam;.lyio the F.T.hcr through
the Mediator; by the holy (/"hol^; to pray to any one pcrlon alone
is idolatry: and thus each perfon in
Tiinity is our Vather,and therefore
all the Tiinity murt have a Land in our regeneration or adoption
5. Hencc-Vvc may alfo lee the leafon why the Fatler doihno:
unite
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