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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
There is a personal Uunion between the two Natures of CHRIST.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In this Description we have (1.) The Assumer. (2.) The Assumed (3.) The manner of Subsistence.
1. The Assumer. Viz. The second Person […] the Godhead: Who is here called the Word So in 1. Joh. 5. 7. There are three that […] record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are One. It is only the Word, or Son of God, and not the Father or the Holy Ghost that is made flesh. It's true that every Person in the Godhead hat• an hand in the Incarnation of Christ. God the Father had so; who is said to prepare a body for his Son, Luc, •. 30, 31. Heb. 10, 5. And God the Holy Ghost had an hand in framing the humane nature of Christ. The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came tog• there she was found with child of the Holy ⟨p. 95⟩Ghost, Mat. 1. 18. And this was according to what the Angel had spoken, who said •nto her,—the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over shadow thee; therefore also that holy Thing that shall be •orn of thee, shall be called the Son of God. Luc. •. 35. But only the Second person of the godhead can be said to assume or to be united to the humane nature. As when three per•ons join together in making a Garment, only […] puts it on; every one has an hand in the efficiency of the Garment, yet but one weareth it; […] in the Efficiency of the humane Nature of Christ, All the Persons in the sacred Trinity […] concur, yet it is only the Word or Son of God that taketh that nature into personal Union. It is only the Second Person of the Godhead, nd not the Godhead that does immediately assume; for then every person in the Godhead should assume humane nature, which we may not affirm. It is Sabellianism and Heresy to maintain, that the Father and the Holy Ghost are incarnate, as well as the Son.