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Q. 44. What is the Office of Christ?

A. Hee is our Mediator, Heb. 12. 24. and he that makes intercession for us, Heb. 7. 25. appea∣ring in the presence of God for us, Heb. 9. 24. and perfuming the Prayers of his members with the odours of his merits, whensoever they pray in his name, Rev. 8. 3, 4. In this sense, no meere creature can bee a Mediator to intreat for us, 1 Sam. 2. 25. And therefore it is in another sence, that the Prayers of Saints living upon earth when they pray for other men, are called intercessions, 1 Tim. 2. 1. and wee must pray them to pray for us; Heb. 13. 18. though not when they bee dead, for then they bee ignorant of us, yea though it bee Abraham himselfe, Isa. 63. 16. The dead know not any thing of the affaires of this life, Eccl. 9. 5. The Lord counts it an absurd thing, that the living should seeke unto the dead, Isa. 8. 19. when once their soules goe away hence they

••e no more to appeare to us, Psal. 39. 13. Nei∣ther have wee any warrant to pray the Angels to pray for us, though they be sent forth to minister for us, Heb. 1. 14. Nor to speake unto them, un∣lesse it bee in a Rhetorieall straine to blesse the Lord, Psal. 103. 20.