“He married our nature” by Richard Sibbes

“God the Father and we are in good terms, for the second person is God in our nature for this end: to make God and us friends.

There is a notable place of Scripture which I note for the expression’s sake, he speaking there of a ‘day’s-man:’

‘There is no day’s-man between us, that might lay his hand on us both.’ (Job 9:33)

A ‘day’s-man’ is a middle person to lay his hand on the one and the other. Now Christ is the middle person, as the second person in the Trinity.

And then He is God and man, and therefore He is fit to be mediator, to lay His hand on both sides, on man as man, on God as God.

And Christ is a friend to both, to God as to God, and to man as man, and therefore He is fit to be an umpire, to be a day’s-man, to be a mediator.

And He hath done it to purpose, making that good in heaven that He did on earth. And therefore labour to make a gracious use of all this.

I know nothing in the world more useful, no point of divinity more pregnant, no greater spring of sanctifying duty, than that God and man were one, to make God and us one.

He married our nature that He might marry our persons.”

–Richard Sibbes, “Miracle of Miracles,” The Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 7 (ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart; Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1638/2001), 7: 122-123.