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Chapter VI: I. The means used is that whole dispensation from whence Christ is

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work of our redemption; II. The acts ascribed to the person of the Father:-- 1. The Father sending his Son into the world for the work of redemption:-- (1.) By an authoritative imposition of the office of mediator upon him:-- [1.] The purposed imposition of his counsel. [2.] The actual inauguration of Christ as mediator. (2.) By furnishing him with a fulness of all gifts and graces:-- [1.] Christ had a natural all-sufficient perfection of his deity; [2.] He had a communicated fulness. (3.) By entering into covenant with him about his work:-- [1.] With a promise of assistance; [2.] With a promise of success. 2. The Father laying upon him the punishment of sin.

I. The means used is that whole dispensation from whence Christ is called a Mediator:-- 1. His oblation; 2. His intercession. II. His oblation not a mean good in itself, but only as conducing to its end, and inseparable from his intercession; as, -- 1. Both intended for the same end; 2. Both of the same extent, as respecting the same objects;
3. His oblation the foundation of his intercession.

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