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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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DOCT. That Jesus Christ is over all, GOD blessed for ever.
It will be good for us to be established in this great Truth, the firm Belief whereof is necessary in order to Salvation. The Argumen•• which the Scripture affords for the Confirm […] of this fundamental Principle in the Doctrine of Christ, may be reduced to Four Heads.
It will be good for us to be established in this great Truth, the firm Belief whereof is neces•ary in order to Salvation. The Argumen•• which the Scripture affords for the Confirm 〈…〉 of this fundamental Principle in the Doctrine of Christ, may be reduced to Four Heads.
1. The Names and Titles which are peculiar unto God, are in the Scripture given to Jesus Christ. e. g. He is expressly and frequently called GOD, and that not only in the New Testament but in the Old. It is said that the Angel spake unto Jacob, saying, I am the God of Bethel, Gen. 31. 11, 13. Now God the ⟨p. 58⟩Father is no where styled an Angel, wherefore that Angel who is the God of Bethel was none else but Christ the increated Angel of the everlasting Covenant. Again, when Jacob blessed Joseph's Children, he thus expressed himself, God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which led me all my life long unto this day, the Angel which Redeemed me from all […], bless the lads,