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The mystery of Christ opened and applied. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…The mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several sermons, concerning the person, office,…
The mystery of Christ opened and applied. In several sermons, concerning the person, office, and glory of Jesus Christ. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Twelve lines of quotations]The mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several sermons, concerning the person, office, and glory of Jesus Christ. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Twelve lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by Richard Pierce for Joseph Browning, 1686
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1. We must set this down for a Principle, that we are to believe beyond Reason. Albeit the great Truths of the Christian Religion are not contrary unto, yet they are above Reason. Therefore must we believe what we are not able to comprehend. Pagans of old, were wont scoffingly to call the Christians Credentes, that is believing persons, because they were such as would believe beyond the comprehension of Reason. And one reason why Socinians in these late days have had such gross and damnable mistakes about the Person of Christ, hath been because they would not believe beyond ⟨p. 47⟩Reason; whenas the great and glorious My••eries respecting the Sonship and the eternal Generation of Christ's Person are beyond what any mans Reason can fathom▪ Therefore we must set Faith on work, and though we cannot conceive how this or that should be, yet we are to take Divine Testimony for it. Take the Word of God for it that it is so, and there rest satisfied.
1. We must set this down for a Principle, that we are to believe beyond Reason. Albeit the great Truths of the Christian Religion are not contrary unto, yet they are above Reason. Therefore must we believe what we are not able to comprehend. Pagans of old, were wont scoffingly to call the Christians Credentes, that is believing persons, because they were such as would believe beyond the comprehension of Reason. And one reason why Socinians in these late dayes have had such gross and damnable mistakes about the Person of Christ, hath been because they would not believe beyond ⟨p. 47⟩Reason; whenas the great and glorious My••eries respecting the Son•hip and the eternal Generation of Christ's Person are beyond what any mans Reason can •athom▪ Therefore we must set Faith on work, and though we cannot conceive how this or that should be, yet we are to take Divine Testimony for it. Take the Word of God for it that it is so, and there rest satisfied.