John Trapp on 1 Timothy 2:5

Verſe 5. For there is one God] ſc. Both of Kings and Subjects, both of Heathens and Chriſtians. Go boldly to him therefore, for your ſelves and others. Have we not all one Father? Mal. 2.10. Art not thou our Father? Iſa. 63.16.

One Mediatour] Not of redemption only (as the Papiſts grant) but of interceſſion too. We need no other maſter of requeſts in heaven, but the man Chriſt Jeſus, who being ſo near us in the matter of his incarnation, will never be ſtrange to us in the buſineſſe of interceſſion. But what horrible blaſphemy is that of the Papiſts, who in their devotions ſay thus,Act and Mon. fol. 1453. By the bloud of Thomas B[illegible: 1 letter]cket, which he did ſpend, Make us, Chriſt, to climb where Thomas did aſcend!