Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.

V.

Againe, Christ must be such a person as is fit to take vpon him the office of a a 1.1 mediator: And such was none, but the sonne of God incarnate: for that he is al∣lied to both the parts which were to be re∣conciled, and therefore louing both, and beloued of both. Againe, he must so per∣forme the office of a mediator betweene God & vs, that by his b 1.2 death, he reconcile vs vnto God: and this death being God only he could not haue suffred, and being man only he could not haue ouercome. A∣gaine, he must be very God, that the pro∣pitiatorie sacrifice (which was his bloud shed for the elect) might be a ransome & c 1.3 sufficient price for our sinnes: againe he must be very man to d 1.4 satisfie the iustice of God: againe a person sanctified of God, that he might be a holy e 1.5 Priest, and a holy f 1.6 sacrificer. Againe he must be very God, that (after he had by the merite of his

Priesthood reconciled them vnto God, and obtained the holy Ghost for them) he might also him selfe giue them the same holy spirite, to worke faith in them, to re∣ceiue him, and his merites.

Notes

• a 1.1

  1. Tim. 2.5 Heb. 8.6.
• b 1.2

  Heb. 9.15.
• c 1.3

  Act. 20.28. 1. Iohn. 1.7.
• d 1.4

  Rom. 5.12 &c.
• e 1.5

  Heb. 7.26.
• f 1.6

  1. Pet. 1.19