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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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JOH. 1. 14. —The Word was made Flesh.
John wrote his Gospel after the rest of the Evangelists. When the Apostles were most of them dead, there arose certain Heretics who denied the Godhead of Christ; which is thought to be the occasion of John's writing his Gospel; that so he might bear witness against that which was the grand Error of the time wherein he lived. He does most plainly assert and prove the Deity of Christ: for which cause he has been commonly ⟨p. 76⟩styled John the Divine. And that is in a special manner the Scope of this Chapter, which does contain a Description of the Person of Jesus Christ, in respect of both his Natures Divine and Humane. The Divinity of Christ is asserted and proved from ver. 1. to 14. His Humane Nature is declared in this verse & in these words; wherein we have
JOhn wrote his Gospel after the rest of the Evangelists. When the Apostles were most of them dead, there arose certain Hereticks who denied the Godhead of Christ; which is thought to be the occasion of John's writing his Gospel; that so he might bear witness against that which was the grand Error of the time wherein he lived. He does most plainly assert and prove the Deity of Christ: for which cause he has been comonly ⟨p. 76⟩styled John the Divine. And that is in a special manner the Scope of this Chapter, which does contain a Description of the Person of Jesus Christ, in respect of both his Natures Divine and Humane. The Divinity of Christ is asserted and proved from ver. 1. to 14. His Humane Nature is declared in this verse & in these words; wherein we have