That which we shall, at present, observe is, that he is styled the _only_ Mediator: Thus it is said, _There is one Mediator between God and men, The man Christ Jesus_, 1 Tim. ii. 5. In this we oppose the Papists, who greatly derogate from the glory of Christ by pretending that the angels, and glorified saints, are mediators of intercession, and that they not only offer up supplications to God in the behalf of men here on earth, but with them they present their own merits, as though Christ’s redemption and intercession had not been sufficient without them; and accordingly a great part of their worship consists in desiring that these good offices may be performed by them, on their behalf, which I cannot but conclude to be a breach of the _first_, or, at least, let them put never so fair colours upon it, of the _second commandment_; which will be farther considered in its proper place. The scriptures they bring, in defence of this practice, are nothing to their purpose. For whenever an angel is said to intercede for men, as it is expressed, _The angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah?_ Zech. i. 12. or to be the object of their prayers, or supplications, as Jacob says, _The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads_, Gen. xlviii. 16. no other person is intended hereby but Christ _the angel of the covenant_. Another scripture, which they bring to the same purpose, is that, in which Moses says, _Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants_, Exod. xxxii. 13. which they miserably pervert; for Moses does not desire that God would hear the prayers that these saints made to him in the behalf of his church; but that he would remember the covenant that he made with them, and so accomplish the promises thereof, by bestowing the blessings that his people then stood in need of.