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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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To the reader: To the Second Church and Congregation, at Boston in NEW-ENGLAND.
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To the Second Church and Congregation, at Boston in NEW-ENGLAND.
My Dearly Beloved,
Our LORD in His last and must heavenly Prayer for His Disciples, Has said, that this is life eternal to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. I have therefore in the Course of• my Ministry among you (you know) preached concerning Christ more than on any other Subject. And I have singled out the few Sermons emitted herewith, partly because the Truths insisted on are of the highest importance; but also in that they are much opposed by men of corrupt minds in this evil and adulterous Generation. It was the Dying Complaint of a late Worthy, 'Never (says he) was there an Age since the Name of Christian was known upon the earth, wherein there was such a direct opposition made unto the person and glory of Christ, as that wherein we live. We have now a great number who oppose the Person and Glory of Christ under a pretence of Sobriety of Reason, as they vainly plead. ⟨p. 2⟩Yea, the Disbelief of the Mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God, the sole Foundation of the Christian Religion, is so diffused in the world, as that it has almost devoured the Power and vitals of it.—Of all the evils which I have seen in the days of my pilgrimage now drawing to their close, there is none so grievous as the public Contempt of the principal Mysteries of the Gospel. Thus