Reason 1. Because God made Christ our Mediator, neither is there any other name under heaven whereby we may be saved.
2. Because God made him the Mediator of our redemption by vertue of his election: for those whom God elected, he gave unto Christ to be redeemed and saved, Iohn 17.6. John 6.37.
3. Because Christ is the second Adam, the Father, the head of all those that are elected and to be saved: therefore as life naturall was derived unto all men first from Adam, so also from Christ, and in him is all life spirituall communicated unto us.
Vse 1. This may serve to refute the Papists and others which have chosen to themselves other meanes and mediators extra Christum, besides Christ, and have departed from that way of salvation which the eternall election of God hath prescribed.
2. To exhort us to put our whole trust and confidence in Christ alone, and daily to seeke after a neerer and neerer union with him.
Doctrine 5. In that chaine of our [♦]salvation, the beginning is from God the Father, the dispensation of it is through his Sonne Iesus Christ, the application of it is through the Holy Ghost.
[♦] “salvatian” replaced with “salvation”
This is intimated in that solemne benediction which the Church received from the Apostle.
Reason. Because this order of operation doth best agree with the order of subsisting, which the Scripture attributes to the Divine persons.
Vse 1. This may serve to admonish us, by no meanes to put asunder those operations which God hath joyned together: Now this they doe, which do either divide Christ from election, or election from Christ, or the election of the Father and Christ from the sanctification of the holy Ghost, promising to themselves salvation, either by vertue of election, or of Christ, when they have not the least part of the sanctification of the holy Ghost.