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OF THE

LEARNED AND REVEREND

JOHN SCOTT, D. D.

SOMETIME RECTOR OF ST. GILES'S IN Tthe fields.

A NEW EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

OXFORD,

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCXXVI.

Of the signification and notion of a Mediator, 228. Six

general articles proposed to our belief in scripture concern-

ing the person and offices of the Mediator. First, That he is

designed and authorized to this office by God, who is our

absolute Lord and Sovereign, 230. Upon what account the

belief of this is necessary, 232. Secondly, That this office, to

which he is authorized, consists in acting for and in the be-

half of God and men, who are the parties between whom he

mediates, 233. the belief of which article carries with it the

most indispensable obligations to Christian piety and virtue,

235. Thirdly, That his mediation proceeds upon certain terms

and stipulations between God and man, which terms he ob-

tained of God for us, and in God's name hath published to

us, 240. What these terms are, ibid. The performance of these

terms our Saviour solicits both of God and us, 241. Fourthly,

That as he acts for and in the behalf of God and man, so he

partakes of the natures of both, 247. That he should partake

of the nature of God was highly necessary to qualify him

for this sublime office of mediating for God with men, 248.

and the same necessity there was, that he should partake of

the nature of man, 250. That he should also partake of the

nature of both, no less requisite to qualify him to mediate

for men with God, 253. That he is God as well as man,

proved from scripture, 257. and also that he is man as well

as God, 268. Fifthly, That as he partakes of the nature of

both, so that he might transact personally with both, he was

sent down from heaven to us, and is returned from us to

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