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A77355	The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The first volume. Viz. I. The great Gospel-mysterie of the saints comfort and holinesse, opened and applyed from Christs priestly office. II. Satans power to tempt; and Christs love to, and care of his people under temptation. III. Thankfulnesse required in every condition.	Bridge, William, 1600?-1670.; Yates, John, d. ca. 1660.; Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.; Adderley, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4445; Thomason E471_1; ESTC R6919	182,218	262

unto ye like unto me hear ye him And now here in this 17. of Matthew at the transfiguration Moses and Elias appeared which they did not in the 3. of Matthew First Consider that the Emphasis may lie upon the word Hear and not upon the word Him only This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Hear ye him His face did shine as the Sun and his rayment was white as the light And Christ appeared in great glory and they stood looking upon him Nay saies the Lord from Heaven do not make it a gazing matter but Hear him don't stand looking upon him but Hear him He don't appear in such a glory in the 3. of Matthew when he was baptized and therefore those words are not added there But again Here now in the 17. Chapter of Matthew at the Transfiguration appears Moses and Elias Behold at the 3. verse There appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him Moses that gave the Law Elias that restored it Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus Lord 't is good for us to be here if thou wilt let us make here Three Tabernacles one for Thee and one for Moses and one for Elias Peter and so the rest of the Disciples began for to equallize Moses to Jesus Christ One for Moses and one for Elias and one for Jesus Christ no more for Christ than for Moses Now the Lord takes Peter off from all his mistakings Your eye is upon Moses saith he but I saith the Lord God Almighty am wel pleased in my Son This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased I am well pleased with you and with your Duties through this my Son and not through Moses and therefore Hear Christ and not Moses He laies this in upon it that therefore they should be Evangelical and hear Jesus Christ because the Lord Christ gives acceptance unto all and by him God is well pleased with them Again further The more glory Christ does appear in the greater reason there is why we should hear him Now here the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in glory his face did shine as the Sun and his raiment was white as the light In the 3. of Matthew he was there baptized and he did not appear in glory but now here he appears in glory and therefore saies the Lord now Hear him this is your glorious Saviour Hear him Beloved what greater glory can Jesus Christ appear to your souls in than this the glory of his love he takes every one of your Duties and your Prayers and he carries them in to the bosome of God the Father and by him you have acceptance Oh! what a glorious Saviour have ye therefore Hear him This is that if any thing will make ye very Obedient to Christ more than to Moses to be Evangelical in all your Duties Yet further The more a man can rejoyce in spiritual priviledges with humility and the more humble a man is and yet can rejoyce in his spiritual priviledges the more holy he is there goes a great deal of Holiness to it to joyn these two together for a man to rejoyce in his spiritual priviledges and yet to be humble and to walk very humbly Some there are that look upon ther spiritual priviledges and rejoyce much but they don't walk humbly Some labour to walk humbly and are much troubled in the consideration of their own evil but they don't rejoyce in their spiritual priviledges Give me a Christian that doth both and he is a blessed man The study of this Truth that is now before you will teach you to do both to do both together For what a great priviledge is this not a figh not a groane not a duty but the Lord Christ takes it and carries it in and presents it to God the Father for me whereby I have acceptance Considering this here is matter of much joy and rejoycing I but It is Christ that does it there is no such worthiness in mine own duty it were lost and cast away if Jesus Christ did not take it in his hand and carry it into the bosome of God the Father and therefore why should I not walk humbly I conclude all with this If that the Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest offers up all our Gifts unto God the Father whereby we have acceptance What infinite cause have we all to be Thankful to God for Christ and to love Jesus Christ for ever Suppose one of you had been among the Disciples when the Lord Christ wash't his Disciples feet and he should have come and wash't your feet and have done it would not your heart have glowed with love to Jesus Christ Yet when the Lord Jesus Christ wash't his Disciples feet it was in the daies of his flesh when he was here on the earth but now he is in glory and yet for all this he takes your dirty prayers and does as it were wash the feet of your prayers that he may present them to God the Father he washes your tears over again in his bloud and presents them to God the Father he takes all your Duties and perfumes them with his intercessions and so presents them unto God the Father Oh! what cause have we to love Jesus Christ Oh! you that never loved Christ love him now and you that have loved him before love him much more you that fear the lord love the Lord and let us all even go away with our hearts warmed with this love blessing and praising the Name of the Lord. And thus I have led you into a Third work of our great Hight Priest which is this To offer up the Gifts of the people unto God the Father A Fourth follows c. SERMON IV. HEBREWES 2.17 18. Wherefore in all thing it behoved him Preached at Stepney May. 16. 1647. to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people For in that He himselfe hath suffered being tempted he is able to succou them that are tempted IT hath been opened and applied that the work of the High-Priest was and is To satisfie for the sins of the people to make Intercession for them and to offer up their Gifts unto God the Father all which Christ doth for us I shall speak of one work more of our great High-Priest and that is To bless the people We reade in the Old-Testament of two sorts of High-Priests One according to the order of Aaron the Levitical High-Priest as I may so speak and his work was for to Bless the People as we may reade in the 6. Chapter of Numbers the 23. verse Speak unto Aaron and unto his Sons saying On this wise ye shall bless the Children of Israel saying unto them c. There was another High-Priest not according to this order of Aaron and that was Melchisedec and he also did Blesse Abraham And the Apostle speaking of him

of Genesis when he had brought Noah out of the Ark Why does he rather choose for to speak those words Increase and Multiply at these Two times especially rather than at any other time In the beginning there was but a little stook of man-kind and the Lord had a design upon man to make use of him in the world and therefore in the beginning saies he Increase and Multiply but afterward that the floud had swept away man Noah and his family being preserved when he came out of the Ark the Lord having yet a further design upon man to use him he reneweth those words again Increase and Multiply So when the Lord Christ sees that a mans heart is upright and sincere with him and he hath some work and service for him to do then the Lord comes forth and blesses him O soul Increase and Multiply increase in thy Gifts and Graces and Multiply That is one Again As the Lord doth blesse weak Gifts and Graces when he intends to use them so also when as he hath made use of a man when a man hath done the work of God and done it to purpose then the Lord blesses that man Melchisedec a great Type of Christ here when Abraham had been upon a great service slaying Kings and resoued Lot then Melchisedec the High-Priest comes forth and blesses him So when the Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest sees that a poor soul hath been upon his work upon his service and hath done his work faithfully then he comes forth and blesses that soul O soul live for ever Again As he does blesse at this time when a man hath done his work so also when a man is willing for to leave all his Relations and natural ingagements for to follow him to cleave close unto him and to his waies and ordinances The Lord blessed Abraham Thou shalt be blessed In Blessing I will Blesse thee and thou shalt be blessed Upon what occasion Abraham saies he get thee out of thy Country and go to a land and place that I will shew thee and Abraham did so Abraham puld up his Tent and went after the Lord and left his own Relations and thereupon the Lord fell upon him and blest him So when the Lord Christ our High-Priest sees a soul willing even to trample upon his Relations for to follow him willing to leave all natural ingagements for to be his servant then the Lord Christ comes out and saies he This soul do I blesse In blessing I will blesse thee and I will blesse thee exceedingly That is a Third time Fourthly The Lord Christ our High-Priest does blesse when the world Curses a speciall time of Christs blessing is when the world Curses When Rabshekah reviled blasphemed and Cursed then God blest When Balak hired Balaam for to Curse the people of Israel then the Lord blest them by the mouth of Balaam himself And ye see what Christ saies to this purpose in that same 5. chapter of Matthew at the 10. verse Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake But when are they blessed Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you I but suppose it don't come to a bodily persecution men may not be thrown in prison or brought to the stake Saies he Blessed are ye when men shall Revile persecute you with the tongue and say all manner of evil against you for my sake When the world saies of such a poor soul That he is an Hypocrite a dissembler and speaks all manner of evil that can be divised against a poore soule for the Name of Christ that is the very time that Christ comes for to bless that soule then doth Christ blesse it 's a blessed season In the Fift place The Lord Christ does also Bless when as People do graciously injoy the Ordinances purely and Evangelically administred It is said concerning Zion There commanded he his blessing for ever Psa 89.15 Blessed are the people that hear the joyful sound they shall walk in the light of his countenance It is written of the Priests in the times of the Old-Testament that when the people the Congregation were come together they blest them when the People were come together for the injoyment of Ordinances according to Gods own appointment then the Priests blest them And did their High-Priest blesse them then and shall not our High Priest do it now Did their High-Priest blesse them when they sate under Mosaical Ordinances and shall not our High-Priest blesse the people that sit under Evangelical and Gospel-Ordinances purely Evangelically administred The people then might make account of the greatest blessing and so may you do also of the blessing of Jesus Christ when thus you do enjoy Ordinances Only there is this difference other differences there are but this only I shall speak of Then the Priest did blesse the people when the Congregation was dismist but now the Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest he is blessing of the Congregation all the while he is going up and down in the Congregation all the while that the Word is preached and Ordinances administred and he is blessing poor souls as they sit longing after him and sighing towards him he is blessing of them all the while Thus he does blesse and though you don 't alwaies perceive it yet he doth blesse his people Quest 5 And that 's the Fourth thing But yet you will say How does all this conduce unto our Comfort Answ and unto our Holiness Much every way First for Comfort Beloved Is it not a Comfortable thing to be blessed by Jesus Christ Children counted it a great matter to be blest by their parents when as Jacob had gotten the Blessing from Esau Esau goes and fits down and mourns he could not be comforted because the blessing was gone and Jacob though he were thrust out of doors yet because he had gotten the Blessing he went away cheerfull and it was but an Isaac's Blessing But behold a greater then Isaac is here Oh! was it such a matter to have an Isaac's Blessing what is it then to be Blessed by Jesus Christ Beloved when as Christ doth bless he turns all our Curses into Blessings and our Miseries into Mercies When God Curses he turns our Table into a Snare and when Christ Blesseth he turnes our snare into a Table quite contrary Jacob pronounced a Curse upon his two sons Simeon and Levi you know upon what occasion They should be divided and scattered in Israel afterward the Tribe of Levi stands up at the cōmandement of God to execute Justice Judgment the Lord blest them And how did he bless them They were to be the Preachers unto all the Tribes and so that they might be Preachers unto all the Tribes they were to be scattered into all the tribes so Jacobs curse was turned into a

that Jesus Christ is my High-Priest so as to have satisfied for me Ah if I did but know that the Lord jesus Christ were my High-Priest in this particular so as to have satisfied for me then should I have comfort indeed how shall I discover that I am afraid he hath not satisfied for me And why not for thee man or woman why not for thee Ans 1 I shall tell you what I have heard concerning a young man that lay upon his death bed and went to Heaven While he was lying upon his death bed he comforted himself in this That the Lord Christ died for sinners Oh! blessed be the Lord saies he Jesus Christ hath died for me Satan came in with this temptation to him I but young man why for thee Christ died for sinners but why for thee how canst thou make that appear that Christ died for thee Nay Satan saies he and why not for me Ah the Lord Jesus he died for sinners and therefore Satan why not for me So he held his comfort and went up to Heaven triumphing So say I to thee poor drooping soul that labours under Temptation Why not for thee why not for thee and say so unto Satan Why not for me Again Christs satisfaction it lies open for all sorts of sinners to come unto it As the promise Ans 2 it runs indefinitely and if a man come to the promise and apply it his very applying the promise does make it His. You say Oh! that I did but know that the promise belongs to me I say thy very resting upon the promise makes it to belong to thee So the satisfaction of Jesus Christ this piece of Christs Priestly Office it lies open for all sorts of sinners for to come unto it and your very resting upon it and applying it to your own souls it makes it to belong unto you Furthermore If Jesus Christ be willing that you should think that he hath satisfied for you Ans 3 then it is no presumption for you to think so Now saies he at the Lords Supper Take my blood that is shed for thee I apply it to thee Behold thy King cometh unto thee When he rode upon an Asses colt it was not said Behold thy Lord cometh but behold thy King cometh to thee he would have every one so to think More especially Ans 4 If that a poor Christian now might not to unto Jesus Christ as unto his High-Priest and say that he is an High-Priest to me then are we Christians in a great deal worser condition than the Jews were for when a Jew had sinned he might carry his sacrifice to the Priest and he might say That this Priest here belongs to me And there was never a Jew amongst all the people of the Jewes but when the High-Priest sprinkled the Mercy-Seat but he might say This he hath done for me Now we are not in a worse condition than the Jews were this High-Priest is beyond all the High-Priests that ever was before him and therefore there is never a poor Christian but he may go to the Lord Christ and say Oh! my High-Priest and this my High-Priest hath satisfied for me Oh! what comfort is here to poor drooping souls Lift up your heads O all ye Saints and Children of God me thinks here is that indeed that might bring you off your own sands When there is no water in the river but his own the tyde comes not in no sea-water only the water of the river the native water as I may so speak then your bottoms your ships they stand upon the sands but when the tyde comes in then they are raised and come off the sands then And so long as thou hast nothing in thy own channel but thine own righteousness thou stickest upon the sands in the deep mire But now when the tyde of the Lords satisfaction comes in there is a full-sea of mercy and satisfaction able to swim the heaviest vessel made by Jesus Christ Ah me thinks this should lift up a poor soul and fetch him off from his sands Be of good Comfort them Thus it 's evident how this truth does much conduce to our Comfort But you will say Quest Does it not much conduce to our Grace or Holiness too Or if it do I pray how Yes Answ 1 This truth does conduce much to our Holiness too You shall observe that the new Covenant of grace it is laid and founded upo the satisfaction of jesus Christ upopn the Crosse upon that oblation Three times the Apostle Paul makes mention of the new Covenant of grace in the book of the Hebrews the 8 9 and 10. Chapters and in all these places he laies the Covenant of grace and founds it upon the satisfaction of Jesus Christ But especially in the 9. Chapter the 13 14 and 15. verses The 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Then at the 15. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the new Testament For this cause plainly laying the new Covenant of grace upon the satisfaction of Jesus Christ upon this part of his Priestly Office So then thou maiest now go unto God the Father and say Lord thou hast made a Covenant of grace with poor man and this Covenant of grace is founded upon the Priestly Office and satisfaction of Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus Christ he hath satisfied for me and the new Covenant promises that we shall be all taught of God Lord I amignorant Oh! therefore now by the satisfaction of Christ let me be taught of thee that I may be made wise unto salvation And so again Lord thou hast made a Covenant of grace with poor man this is laid upon the satisfaction of Jesus Christ The Covenant of grace saies I will write my Law in your inward parts Now O Lord seeing Jesus Christ hath founded this Covenant in his blood and I am one of those that he hath made satisfaction for Oh! write thy Law in my inward parts that I may do all thy wills But again Answ 2 in the Second place that we may see how this do conduce to our Holiness Strengthen faith and we strengthen all if faith be weakened all grace is weakened Strengthen your faith and you strengthen all your Holiness and all your Graces The way to strengthen a bough or a branch of the tree is not to carry dung up into the tree but to lay it to the root Strengthen the root and ye strengthen all the branches Faith is the Root-grace now the knowledge and the thorow degesting of this truth That the Lord Jesus Christ is our great High-Priest in this point of satisfaction it does wonderfull strengthen our faith For the more I know that God is willing and and Christ willing to shew mercy unto me the more my faith is strengthened I know this That every man is willing

my house but I went unto the tree and gathered it off the tree and I sate down under the shadow of the tree and Oh! how sweet was the fruit unto me So saies the soul so saies the Spouse of Jesus Christ I sate down under the shadow of Jesus Christ and then his fruit was sweet unto my tast It may be we have had other shadows we have sate down under the shadow of our Estate our outward Estate hath been sweet unto our tast We have sate down it may be under the shadow of friendship and the fruit of friendship hath been sweet unto our tast But behold here a tree the tree of life whose shadow reaches to the end of the earth Ah Come Come and sit down under the shadow of Jesus Christ If there be ever a poor soul that never yet knew what Comfort meant Ah Come Come under the shadow of the Lord Jesus The Priestly Office of Jesus Christ it hath a very sweet shadow Come therefore you that say you cannot profit under the means and you that complain of such and such temptations and such and such sins and that you were never yet comforted your consciences never pacified Come now and sit down under the shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ I tell thee from the Lord thus fruit of His it shall be sweet unto thy tast thou shalt go to Prayer and Prayer shall be sweet unto thy soul though heretofore thou couldst find no sweetness in it so the Word and other Ordinances shall be sweeter unto thee than the hony or the hony combe Thus it 's evident how comfortable the Priestly Office of Jesus Christs and how much conducing unto our Comfort and Holiness Oh! therefore let us study now study the Priestly Office of Jesus Christ and come and sit down under his shadow and the Lord make his fruit sweet unto all our souls And thus I have opened and applyed the first particular of Christs Priestly Office The Second follows c. SERMON II. HEBREWES 2.17 18. Wherefore in all things it behoved him Preached at Stepney Maii. 2. 1647. to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High-Priest in things pertaining to godliness to make reconciliation for the sins of the people For in that He himselfe hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted I Have begun to discover from these words That the Friestly Office of Jesus Christ is the great Magazine and Storehouse of all that grace and comfort which we have in this world that whereby we are succoured and relieved against all Temptations This hath been made good in the Generall and in one Particular work of the High Priest If we now inquire further what the work of the High-Priest was and is that accordingly we may address our selves unto Jesus Christ for succour We shall find that it is also to Pray and Intercede for the people To make reconciliation for the sins of the people saies the text To make Atonement for the sins of the people saies the old Testament Which Reconciliation or Atonement was made in the times of the old Testament not only by offering of a sacrifice but by taking the blood thereof and presenting that with Praers and intercessions unto God to accept of it for the sins of the people As we shall find in that same 16. of Livitieus After the sacrifice was kild the Priest was to take the blood of it and sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy-Seat as we reade in the 14. verse And at the 12. and 13. He shall take a Censer full of burning coals of fire from off the Alter before the Lord and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the vaile And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord that the cloud of the incense may cover the Mercy-Seat He was to cause a cloud of incense to arise upon the Mercy-Seat All which was a great Type of the Prayers and Intercessions of Jesus Christ who having once offered up himself a sacrifice for our sins hath carried the blood and the vertue of it into Heaven there sprinkled the Mercy-Seat and there still by his Intercessions does appear for us As it is proved at large in the 9. Chapter of this Epistle to the Hebrews 11. and 12 verses But Christ being come an High-Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this building Neither by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood be entered in once into the holy place having obtained eternall redemption for us And at the 24. verse For Christ is not entered into the Holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us And if you duely consider this book of the Hebrews you will find that this work of Christs Intercession is The Essential work of his Priestly-Office it seems rather to go beyond the former than to fall short of it Hebrews the 8. Chapter and the 4. verse For if he were on earth he should not be a Priest That is look as it was in the times of the old Testament if the Priest had only offered a sacrifice and had not gone into the holy of holiest with the blood thereof sprinkling the Mercy-Seat praying and interceding that it might be accepted for the sins of the people the Priest had not done the work of the Priest and so he had not been a compleat Priest So now saies the Apostle if Jesus Christ had only offred up himself here a sacrifice and had not gone into Heaven the holy of holiest and carried the power and the vertue of his death thither to pray and intercede for us he had not done the work of the great High-Priest Every Priest might sacrifice but every Priest might not go into the Holy of Holiest that belonged only to the High-Priest to do Now therefore Jesus Christ going into Heaven the Holy of Holiest there to make Intercession for us is the great and the special work of this High-Priest That I may cleer up this mysterious Truth I shall deliver my self these Four waies by opening First Wherein the Intercession of Christ consisteth and what he doth when we say he intercedes in Heaven for us Secondly How powerfull and prevailing his Intercessions are with God the Father Thirdly That he doth now intercede as our great High-Priest and in a more transcendent and eminent way and manner than ever any High-Priest did before Fourthly This does conduce to our Comfort and to our Holiness First If it be demanded Quest Wherein consisteth this Intercession of Jesus Christ I Answer Answ 1 First it consists in this His appearing for us in Heaven his owning of our Cause and of our souls to God the Father It is the word that is used in that 9.

Chapter of the Hebrews the 24. verse Christ is not entred into the holy place made with hands but into Heaven now to appear in the presence of God for us He does not in an ordinary way and manner appear for us in Heaven but with an Emphasis he does openly and publickly before all the Saints and Angels appear for us in the presence of God the Father It is a comfort unto a man sometimes to have a good friend at Court at the Kings elbow that may own him and appear for him but though a man have a friend at Court sometimes if there be any danger he will not appear and own a man it may be he will own him and countenance his Cause as long as there is no danger but no longer But now here we have a friend in Heaven that will appear for us and own our Causes and our souls and in all conditions appear for us That is the First Secondly Answ 2 He doth not only appear for us but by vertue of his Priestly Office he does carry the power merit and vertue of his blood into the presence of God the Father in Heaven and sprinkles the Mercy-Seat with it seven times Seven is a note of Perfection Those that Christ suffered for he does Intercede for He takes all their bonds and he carries them in unto God the Father and he saies Father I have paid these bonds I have paid this debt I have satisfied thy Justice for these poor sinners and now my desire is that they may be acquitted from these bonds and from these debts This also is remarkable in that 9. Chapter of the Hebrews 11 12. verses Thirdly Answ 3 He doth not only carry the power and vertue of his blood and present it to God the Father for our discharge but he does also plead our Cause in Heaven answering unto all those accusations that are brought against us And therefore we may reade what the Apostle saies in the 8. of the Rom. 33. ver Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect it is God that justifies who is he that condemneth it is Christ that died yea rather that he is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Upon this ground the Apostle speaks thus Who shall condemn them Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God the Father to take off all accusations that shall be brought against them Let the World condemn let Moses condemn let Satan condemn Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God the Father to take off all accusations that shall be raised against them Concerning this there is a clear and full instance in that notable Scripture the 3. Chapter of Zachariah and the 1. verse We find Satan standing at the right hand of Joshua to resist him He shewed me Joshua the High-Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan standing at his right band to resist him It was the custome of the Accuser to stand at the right hand of the accused Psalme 109. ver 6. Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand take the wall of him in his accusation condemning of him Now here Satan-standing at Joshua's right hand notes his accusing of him Well what was the matter that he accused him of Ye shall find that there was matter verse the 3. Now Joshua was cloathed with filthy garments and stood before the Angel Satan came and accused him that he had filthy garments and so he had for the Priests had defiled themselves in Babylon in marrying of strange wives as Joshua and his children are charged in the 10. Chapter of Ezra and the 18. verse Give me leave a little to open this charge of Satan that we may see Satan had matter of Charge and accusation against Joshua And among the sons of the Priests there were found that had taken strange wives namely of the sons of Joshua He was High-Priest So that now Joshua had defiled his garments thre was then matter of accusation for Satan to work upon But now our Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest steps in and takes off this accusation The Lord said at the 3. of Zachariah 2. verse unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee The word used by the Septuagint is the same that is used for Excommunication And it is here twice repeated The Lord rebuke thee even the Lord rebuke thee not only to show the fulnesse of Satans rebuke but to show the fulnesse of the intercession of Jesus Christ Now would we see the fulnesse of Christs apology for Joshua Saies the Lord unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee even the Lord rebuke thee And saies he at the latter end of the 2. verse Is not this a brand pluck't out of the fire Thus it is true Lord that Joshua hath filthy garments but yet notwithstanding Joshua is but as a brand pluck't newly out of the burning Take a brand and pull it newly out of the fire and there will be dust ashes and dirt about it Lord saies he Joshua is but newly puld out of the burning and therefore Lord he must needs have some ashes and some dirt and some filth about him O Lord saies Christ although that Joshua be clothed with filthy garments I will take away those filthy garments verse the 4. He answered and spake unto those that stood before him saying Take away the filthy garments from him and unto him he said Behold I have caused thine iniquity to passe from thee and I will clothe thee with change of raiment This can be none but Christ Thus Christ takes off the accusation that was brought against Joshua by Satan for his filthy garments And so does the Lord Christ now If a poor soul fall into any sin defile his garments Satan he comes in and takes the right hand of him stands at the right hand and accuses by reason of this filthy garment but our Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest he being at the right hand of the Father takes up the cause and answers to the accusation True Lord this poor soul indeed hath filthy garments but he is but as a fire-brand pluck't newly out of the burning He was in his natural and sinful condition the other day in his burning and he is but newly changed and therefore he must needs have some dirt and some filth upon him as a fire-brand pluck't out of the burning and therefore consider him in that respect and though he have filthy garments now upon him yet I will give him change of raiments and take away his filthy garments Thus the Lord Christ steps in to God the Father and answers to all those accusations that are brought against him to God the Father This is the Third thing that he does by way of his Intercession Again Answ 4 He doth not only plead our Cause and take off accusations that are

Devil looks upon him And Jesus Christ looks upon him The work of the Law is to Condemn The work of the Devil to Accuse And the work of Jesus Christ is to Intercede it is the work of his office Now therefore assoon as the Devil sees such a soul Oh saies he here 's a fine instrument for me here 's a fit subject for me to injoy Assoon as Moses sees this man Here 's a fine subject for me to condemne unto all Eternity But when Jesus Christ looks upon such a soul saies he Here 's a fine soul for me to save unto all Eternity to intercede for why because it is his Office and what a man does by office he interprets accordingly Therefore what the Lord Jesus Christ does he does by office and he does it readily and willingly And I will give you one demonstration of it It was the end why Jesus Christ was taken into Heaven into the Holy of Holiest that he might Intercede According to the Scriptures mentioned before in Heb. 9.24 For Christ is not entered into holy places made with hands but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us He does not say thus Christ is now gone to Heaven to be glorified there Christ is now gone to Heaven to injoy the bosome of his Father for his own happiness No but he is gone into Heaven to appear in the presence of God for us This is the end of his ascention And so again in the 7. of the Hebrews Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for us What is he in Heaven to be glorified there No but the end why Christ is in Heaven Is to make intercession for poor sinners And therefore he must needs be infinitly willing to do this because it is the end of his going thither into the Holy of Holiest Oh therefore be of good comfort all you that do come unto God by him for he is willing to intercede for you And let not any thing discourage you It may be you will complain and say Oh! but I am much opposed here in this world What matter so long as Jesus Christ does intercede for me in Heaven and speaks good words unto God the Father for me in heaven what though I be opposed by men It may be you will complain and say Oh! but I am much tempted and cannot pray Be humbled for it but yet know this That when you cannot pray Christ prayes for you and he prayes that you may pray It may be you complain and say Oh! but I labour under such and such corruptions and the Devil he is busie with me exceeding busie and I cannot overcome them and the Devil stands at my right hand for to tempt me and to lead me into such and such sins Wel be it so yet notwithstanding the Lord Jesus Christ he is at the right hand of our Father and he is set down at the right hand of God the Father till all enemies be made his footstool and your sins are his enemies And therefore be of good comfort O all ye people of the Lord. Is there ever a poor myrtle-tree a soul that growes in a bottom in a poor dark condition be of good comfort the Lord Jesus Christ our great High-Priest he is entered into Heaven into the Holy of Holiest there to intercede with God the Father for thee I but Quest you will say unto me Does not this conduce to our Grace and Holiness too and how does it do it This Intercession of Jesus Christ Ans this work of the Priestly Office of Christ and the consideration thereof it does conduce exceedingly unto our Grace and Holinesse For. First What a mighty incouragement is here unto all poor sinners for to come unto Jesus Christ He ever liveth to make Intercession for those that come unto God by him Oh! then who would not come unto God by Christ who would not come unto Jesus Christ Me thinks a poor sinner should say Indeed my sins were so great that I was afraid for to come unto God But now I hear that the Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven to make intercession for all those that come unto God by him Though I have been a Drunkerd now I wil go unto God by Christ And though I have been a Swearer and though I have been an unclean wanton yet I will go unto God by Christ Indeed I thought that my time was past for I have been an Old Swearer and I have been an Old Drunkard and I have been an Old Sabbath-breaker and I have been a sinner so long that I was even afraid of going to God at all and thought there was no mercy nor no pardon for me But seeing now that this is true That the Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven to make intercession for all those that come unto God by him Well through the Lords grace now I will go unto the Lord Christ I will go unto Jesus Christ I indeed am a young man and I thought it was to no purpose to go unto God God would not regard poor ignorant ones and I am a poor ignorant creature and thought it was to no purpose for me to go unto God But now I understand this That the Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven to make intercession for all those that come unto God by him Well then Though I am ignorant yet will I go unto God by Christ and though I am but a poor young thing and scarce understand the termes of Religion yet will I go unto God by Christ Oh! come unto Christ come unto Christ Behold here in the Name of the Lord I stand and make invitation to poor sinners Come poor Drunkard Swearer Sabbath-breaker Unclean heart the Lord Jesus Christ is in Heaven to make intercession for all that come unto God by him and will not you come Oh! how will you answer it at the great day when it shall be said The Lord Jesus Christ made a tender and offer of mercy to you and you would not accept of it you would not come unto him Here is matter of great Incouragment unto all poor sinners to come unto Jesus Christ Again Secondly The more I apprehend or see with a spiritual eye That the Lord Jesus Christ does appear in Heaven for me the more am Fingaged to appear upon earth for him Mark I pray that you may see how this does conduce unto Grace and Holiness Ah! shall the Lord Jesus Christ appear in Heaven before Saints and Angels and God the Father for my soul and shal I be afraid to appear before poor worms for him Shall the Lord Jesus Christ own me in Heaven and shall not I own him upon earth Shall the Lord Jesus Christ as the great High-Priest take my name and carry it upon his breast into the presence of God the Father and shall not I take the Name of Christ and hold it forth to the world Oh! I beseech