Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
John Flavel, The Fountain of Life, Works 1:112
"Christ's being a Mediator of reconciliation, implies the ardent love and large pity that filled his heart towards poor sinners. For he doth not only mediate by way of entreaty, going betwixt both, and persuading and begging peace ; but he mediates, (as you have heard) in the capacity of a surety, by putting himself under an obligation to satisfy our debts. O how compassionately did his heart work towards us, that when he saw the arm of Justice lifted up to destroy us, would interpose himself, and receive the stroke, though he knew it would smite him dead ! Our Mediator, like Jonah his type, seeing the stormy sea of God's wrath working tempestuously, and ready to swallow us up, cast in himself to appease the storm."
"Christ's being a Mediator of reconciliation, implies the ardent love and large pity that filled his heart towards poor sinners. For he doth not only mediate by way of entreaty, going betwixt both, and persuading and begging peace ; but he mediates, (as you have heard) in the capacity of a surety, by putting himself under an obligation to satisfy our debts. O how compassionately did his heart work towards us, that when he saw the arm of Justice lifted up to destroy us, would interpose himself, and receive the stroke, though he knew it would smite him dead ! Our Mediator, like Jonah his type, seeing the stormy sea of God's wrath working tempestuously, and ready to swallow us up, cast in himself to appease the storm."
