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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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Psal▪ 83. 18. Yet that very Name is frequently in Scripture, given to Jesus Christ the Son of God. Jehovah •aith, They shall look upon […] whom they have pierced. He that poureth a spirit of Grace upon the house of David (which none but God can do) saith, they have pierced me Zech. 12. 10. See also Gen. 16. 10, 13. & 18. 16, 17. & 22. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. In all which Scriptures Christ the Son of God ⟨p. 60⟩hath the Name of Jehovah given to him. And in the New Testament Christ is described by a Name which answers the Name Jehovah, for he is there said to be, He which is, and which was, and which is to come, Rev. 1. 8. which words are an interpretation of the Name Jehovah. Again, That Name Ehjeh, or as it is Englished I AM, is proper to God, Exod. 3. 14.—thou shalt say to the Children of Israel, I AM hath sent •e unto you. But this Name belongs to Jesus Christ the Son of God; who therefore said, before Abraham was I AM, Joh. 8. 58. Whence the blinded Jews thought that Christ had blasphemed, because He being a man attributed to Himself the proper Title of the eternal GOD. And that Title of the Lord of Glory. is peculiar to God. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord of Hosts is the King of Glory, Psal. 24. 10. But Jesus Christ is so. The princes of this world crucified the Lord of Glory, 1. Cor. 2. 8. He then is the Lord of Hosts. And that Title of the Most High, may not be given to any besides God. None but He is the most High over all the earth,