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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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Jesus Christ is over all, God blessed for ever. › Application 1: USE I.
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USE I.
If Christ be God, then He is a fit Person to be a Saviour and Mediator for Sinners. The Th• Salvation of the Elect proceeds from the Mediatorial Office of Christ, in respect whereof, He is a Prophet Priest and King, as we shall (by the help of Christ) more fully declare from another Scripture. Our Redemption does not depend merely upon ⟨p. 71⟩this, that There is One given to be a Prophet, Priest and King of His Church, but that ••ch an one as is God, is the Person vested with those Offices: For if any other Person in the world (if any mere man or creature) had been constituted a Mediator for Sinners, none would have been saved by him. The Power and Efficacy of Christ's Office, whence it does become effectual to Salvation, ariseth from his being GOD blessed for ever. He has undertaken & discharged his Office not merely as man, but as God over all. Christ could not have been such a Prophet as he is, had he not been God. For he was to be a Prophet to the whole Church in all ages and in all places of the world. Christ as man whilst he was on Earth did personally declare the mind of God to Jews, being made a Minister to that Church Rom. 15. 8. but his prophetical Office was not confined to them. The Church never was without a Prophet since the world began, nor ever shall be, and this Prophet is Christ. And therefore Christ was said to be sent of God, (as Prophets are) before his incarnation. The LORD of Hosts that by the shaking of his hand can destroy the Nations, was sent of God, Zech. 2. 8. It was necessary that Christ as Prophet should have a ⟨p. 72⟩