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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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Reason 2. That so he might be a fit Mediator between GOD and the children of men. There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1. Tim. 2. 5. Hence Christ was fit to be a days man (as Job speaketh) Between them both. It was altogether necessary ⟨p. 87⟩that the Mediator should be Godman. If Christ had been man only he could not have been a Mediator; He could not have saved one sinner, nor satisfied for one sin. And if he had not been a man, but God only, He could not have been a Mediator. He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified, are all one, i. e. of one & the same nature Heb. 2. 11. Since the Elect are partakers of flesh & blood, He Himself took part of the same: Otherwise he could not have dyed, nor have made Reconciliation for the sins of his people. Except he had been made Flesh, He could not have shed His blood to make atonement for sinners.
Reason 2. That so he might be a fit Mediator between GOD and the children of men. There is one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1. Tim. 2. 5. Hence Christ was fit to be a dayes man (as Job speaketh) Between them both. It was altogether necessary ⟨p. 87⟩that the Mediator should be Godman. If Christ had been man only he could not have been a Mediator; He could not have saved one sinner, nor satisfyed for one sin. And if he had not been a man, but God only, He could not have been a Mediator. He that sanctifyeth and they that are sancctifyed, are all one, i. e. of one & the same nature Heb. 2. 11. Since the Elect are partakers of flesh & blood, He Himself took part of the same: Otherwise he could not have dyed, nor have made Reconciliation for the sins of his people. Except he had been made Flesh, He could not have shed His blood to make attonement for sinners.