Of course, such a system as this was one of tyranny and cruelty, and during several centuries it was tempered and softened only by the mediatorial influence of the Christian Church.
There are four of these mediatorial gods, and there is a tablet in the British Museum in which the deceased is shown as placing the gods themselves on the altar as his sin-offering, and pleading their merits.
It had but run through the features of the individual ghosts of the fleet it belonged to, of those bound into the one mediatorial communion.
Moreover, as we have seen, the new Platonism was striving to create some mediatorial power between the world of sense and the Infinite Spirit, transcending all old materialistic fancies of the Divine.
The word Adonai (translated Lord in small letters) conveys the idea of Lord or Ruler, an Almighty Helper or Supporter, and is particularly descriptive of the Mediatorial character of the Lord Jesus.
His judgment of the Church will be the consummation of His mediatorial glory, and the fulness of His reward.
Every event and act in His great mediatorial kingdom will shew the grandeur of His character.
The grand end of His whole mediatorial reign is, "that unto God might be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus.
The second form of mediatorial doctrine, to which we have referred as the modern type of Calvinism, has arisen from the endeavor to evade some of these perplexities.
In this best sense mediatorial religion is imperishable, and imperishably identified with Christianity.
But when we again attempt to seize the mediatorial expedient, what is it?
Whether mediatorial religion shall continue to include in its scheme some provision for dealing with God on behalf of men, will mainly depend on the successful revival or the final abandonment of the old realistic modes of thought.
In mercy to those who had passed away before the Incarnation, He brought the message of the mediatorial work which He had completed in His crucifixion.
Indeed, it is characteristic of those who deny the mediatorial office of Christ to be loudest in magnifying the grandeur of His character.
In other words, the Apostles maintained that the Ascension of our Lord was the act whereby He ascended the Throne of "The Kingdom of Heaven," the Mediatorial Kingdom of Messiah.
The worship of Mithra was carried to Rome and the Romans became acquainted with the mediatorial idea.
The mediatorial idea was prominent in the Persian system.
More complex religious systems were in time evolved, and in some of them mediatorial gods appeared.
From Persia and from Rome this mediatorial God has come.
Again, it is assumed, that the day mentioned is the first day of the week; whereas there is nothing which designates this rather than some other in the course of his mediatorial work, allowing a natural day to be referred to.
The mediatorialoffice of our Lord is exercised chiefly through His Sacrifice.
There is first the ethnic forecourt, then the purgatorial middle-space, and last the holy of holies dedicated to the eternal presence of the mediatorial God.
The Emperor and Russia have been requested in their mediatorial capacity, to send Plenipotentiaries to assist at the definitive treaties.
The admission of an American Minister to the proposed mediatorial Congress would be an acknowledgment of independence.
Russia and Austria are invited to send mediatorial plenipotentiaries to assist at the definitive treaties.
Plan of a mediatorial Congress at which the United States will be represented.
They are employed in executing the measures of his mediatorial administration.
Not his mediatorial relation to his own people shall be given up; much less his personal relation to the Godhead, as the divine Word; but only his mediatorial relation to the world at large.
When the work of redemption is completed, the mediatorial office of the Son will cease.
The glorification of the Son by the Father implies all the honours of His mediatorial office—all the crowns which He won by His victory over the powers of death, and hell.
It describes the character, and mediatorial kingdom of Christ, and the blessings which He confers upon His people.
These blessings are the precious effects of Christ’s mediatorial work; flowing down to all believers, like streams of living water.
A vast deal is said about his Rank, his Merits, his Mediatorial Distinction: very little is said about his Life, his Example, his Revelations of Duty and of Destiny.
I anticipate the objection that the glories of his deity were concealed, and that this concealment was necessary to his mediatorial work.
The clergy were no longer the servants or representatives of the people, but held a mediatorial position as the channels through which divine grace was transmitted to the faithful.
For it is not considered as proceeding from the people, but it is an ordinance performed for them and in their name by a priesthood, whose function is that of representing the Church in its mediatorial capacity.
After these things," contained in the three preceding chapters, the glorious vision of the mediatorial person, and the writing and sending of the seven epistles; there seems to have intervened a pause.
That they may know their duty to the Mediatorial Person as their moral Head, it is requisite that they be directed by a new revelation.
An interdict made the plainest intellect see, understand, and shudder at the awful and mysterious powers which a mediatorial priesthood was said to possess.
Erasmus ignores as completely as Luther would have done the whole mediaeval thought of the mediatorial function of the Church and its priestly order.
It was this universally accepted power of a mediatorialpriesthood which had enslaved Europe, and which had rendered the liberty of a Christian man an impossible thing.
According to Colet, there was no such thing as a mediatorial priesthood whose essential function it was to approach God on men's behalf and present their offerings to Him.
He begins with the mediatorial and saving work of Christ as that is revealed in the blessed experience which faith, the gift of God, creates.
The Mass, with its supposed substitutionary sacrifice and a mediatorial priesthood, had been abolished.
The Christian religion has not given existence to this doctrine of the Trinity; for independently of the mediatorial scheme of redemption and salvation by Christ, God was from eternity the same Triune Being, and cannot change.
But so far is he from this, that he freely offers to sinners the benefit of his mediatorial office.
They express to us the four mediatorial offices of Christ: his incarnation, sacrifice, resurrection, and ascension.
The mediatorial character and glory of Christ ought to be maintained.
William Symington, on "The Mediatorial Dominion of Jesus Christ," chap.
