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ry God, and very Man, yet one Chriſt, the only Mediator between God and Man^[1].

III. The Lord Jeſus, in his humane nature thus united to the divine, was ſanctified and anointed with the holy Spirit, above meaſure^[2], having in him all the treaſeares of wiſdom and knowledge^[3]: in whom, it pleaſed the Father, that all fulneſſe ſhould dwell^[4]: to the end, that being holy, harmleſſe unfideled, and full of grace and truth^[5], he might be thorowly furniſhed to execute the Office of a Mediator, and ſurety^[6], Which Office he took not unto himſelf, but was thereunto called by his Father^[7], who put all power & judgement into his hand, and gave him commandement to execute the ſame^[8].

IV. This office, the Lord Ieſus did moſt willingly undertake^[9]: which that he might diſcharge, hee was made under the Law^[10], aud did perfectly fulfill it^[11], endured moſt grievous torments immediatly in his Soul^[12], and moſt painfull ſufferings in his body^[13]: was crucified, and died^[14]: was buried, and remained under the power of death; yet ſaw no corruption^[15]. On the third day he aroſe from the dead^[16], with the ſame body in which he ſuffered^[17], with which alſo he aſcended into Heaven, and there ſitteth at the right hand of his Father^[18], making interceſſion^[19], and ſhall return to Iudge, men, and Angels, at the end of the world^[20].

V. The Lord Ieſus, by his perfect obedience, and ſacrifice of himſelf, which he, through the eternall ſpirit once offered up unto God, hath fully ſatisfied the

1. Rom. 1. 3, 4.
   1 Tim. 2. 5.
2. Pſal. 45. 7.
   Iohn. 3. 34.
3. Col. 2. 3
4. Col. 1. 19.
5. Heb. 7. 16
   Iohn. 1. 14
6. Act. 10. 38
   Heb. 12. 24
   Heb. 7. 22
7. Heb. 5. 4, 5
8. Ioh. 5. 22. 27
   Mat. 28. 8
   Acts 22 36
9. Pſal.. 40. 7, 8 with Heb. 10. 5. to 11
   Iohn 10. 18
   Phil. 2. 8
10. Gal. 4. 4
11. Mat. 3. 15
    Mat. 5. 17
12. Mat. 26. 37. 38
    Luke 22. 44
    Mat. 27. 46
13. Mat. 26, 27 chapters
14. Phil. 2. 8.
15. Acts 2. 23, 24, 27
    Acts 13. 37
    Rom. 6. 9.
16. 1 Cor. 15. 3, 4
17. Ioh. 20. 25, 27
18. Mark 16. 19
19. Rom. 8. 34
    Heb. 9. 24
    Heb. 7. 25
20. Rom. 14. 9, 10
    Acts 1. 11.
    Acts 10. 42
    Mat. 13. 40, 41, 42
    Iude v. 6
    2 Pet. 2. 4