{"number":25,"title":"How doth Christ execute the Office of a Priest?","part":null,"questions":[25],"paragraphs":[],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"How doth Christ execute the Office of a Priest?","answer":"Christ executeth the Office of a Priest in his once offering up of himself a Sacrifice to satisfie Divine Justice and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.","segments":[{"text":"Christ executeth the Office of a Priest in his once offering up of himself a Sacrifice to satisfie Divine Justice and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"What is the next Office here considered of Christ as our Redeemer?","answer":"The Office of a Priest.","segments":[{"text":"The Office of a Priest.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"How doth Christ perform this Office?","answer":"Two waies, 1. By offering up himself a Sacrifice.","segments":[{"text":"Two waies, 1. By offering up himself a Sacrifice.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Who offered up Iesus Christ?","answer":"He offered up himself.","segments":[{"text":"He offered up himself.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What Sacrifice did he offer?","answer":"He offered himself a Sacrifice.","segments":[{"text":"He offered himself a Sacrifice.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What mean you by Christ offering up himself a Sacrifice?","answer":"Christ dying in his humane Nature for us.","segments":[{"text":"Christ dying in his humane Nature for us.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"How often did Christ offer up himself?","answer":"He offered up himself once only.","segments":[{"text":"He offered up himself once only.","proofs":["Hebrews 7:27"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:27","osis":["Heb.7.27"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Why did Christ offer up himself for us?","answer":"For two ends, 1. To satisfie divine Justice.","segments":[{"text":"For two ends, 1. To satisfie divine Justice.","proofs":["Hebrews 9:13–14"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 9:13–14","osis":["Heb.9.13-Heb.9.14"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Could not Iustice otherwise be satisfied?","answer":"Without death Justice could not be satisfied, though mercy provided and accepted him as a Surety to die for us.","segments":[{"text":"Without death","proofs":["Hebrews 9:22"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 9:22","osis":["Heb.9.22"]}],"note":null},{"text":"Justice could not be satisfied, though mercy provided and accepted him as a Surety to die for us.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What is the second end of Christs Sacrificing himself?","answer":"To reconcile us to God.","segments":[{"text":"To reconcile","proofs":["Hebrews 2:17"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 2:17","osis":["Heb.2.17"]}],"note":null},{"text":"us to God.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What do you mean by reconciling us to God?","answer":"Making God and us friends, or it is a bringing us by Nature enemies, into an estate of peace and friendship with God again.","segments":[{"text":"Making God and us friends, or it is a bringing us by Nature enemies, into an estate of peace and friendship with God again.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"How else doth Christ excute the Office of a Priest?","answer":"By making Intercession.","segments":[{"text":"By making Intercession.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"What do you mean by Christs making Intercession for us?","answer":"The presenting his Sacrifice and Merits for us before his Father. Or, his praying and making request to God, that what he hath purchased for us may be given us; and that our persons and duties may be accepted by him through his Merits.","segments":[{"text":"The presenting his Sacrifice and Merits for us before his Father. Or, his praying and making request to God, that what he hath purchased for us may be given us; and that our persons and duties may be accepted by him through his Merits.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"Of what duration is his Intercession?","answer":"It is continual (ceaseth not till the end▪ of the World).","segments":[{"text":"It is continual (ceaseth not till the end▪ of the World).","proofs":["Hebrews 7:25"],"refs":[{"printed":"Hebrews 7:25","osis":["Heb.7.25"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"To which of Christs Offices doth it belong to offer Sacrifices, and make Intercession for us?","answer":"To his Priestly Office.","segments":[{"text":"To his Priestly Office.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]}]}],"text":null}