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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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And this Truth is still mysteriously signified by that Ordinance of the Lord's Supper. The bread signifies the Body and the Wine the Blood of Christ: And that Sacramental Action of Taking the Bread in order to the Consecration thereof, puts us in mind of Christ's taking our nature. That's a ⟨p. 86⟩Meditation which should be in our hearts, as we see the Minister take the bread in order to the Blessing & Breaking of it, we should then think of Christ's Incarnation, that the Son of God has assumed our nature, that so he might dye for our sakes
And this Truth is still mysteriously signifyed by that Ordinance of the Lord's Supper. The bread signifies the Body and the Wine the Bloud of Christ: And that Sacramental Action of Taking the Bread in order to the Consecration thereof, puts us in mind of Christ's taking our nature. That's a ⟨p. 86⟩Meditation which should be in our hearts, as we see the Minister take the bread in order to the Blessing & Breaking of it, we should then think of Christ's Incarnation, that the Son of God has assumed our nature, that so he might dye for our sakes
We come therefore to enquire into the Reasons of the Doctrine.
Reas. 1. The Word was made flesh, because it was the Will of the Father to have it so. We have formerly treated of the Covenant of Redemption, & then was showed that this was one Article i• that Covenant, that the Son of God should take unto him the nature of Man. The Father said to Him, If thou wilt be a Redeemer for sinful Man, thou must thy self become a man, and in that nature do what concerns a Redeemer to perform. In Compliance with this Will of the Father, the Son of God was manifest in the flesh,