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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.
2. Here is the Thing Assumed. viz. The Singular humane nature of Christ. The Son of God hath taken humane Nature into his own Bo•ome, into nearest Union with His ⟨p. 96⟩own Person. Hence he is said to assume flesh i. e. humane nature and none other, Heb. •. 14. 16. Forasmuch as the children are partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself took par• […] the same; for verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed cmay be affirmed only of […] individual humane nature of Christ. It can•• without Blasphemy and Heresy be affirmed […] the individual humane nature of Abraham, […] Peter or David or John, or any particular Saint that it is personally united to the Son of God He has taken them into mystical Union […] himself, but not into personal Union; […] that is the Prerogative Royal of Jesus Christ Nor indeed was it meet that so great a Dig•• ty should be common. As Divines right observe, It becomes not the great GOD, who ONE in nature, to communicate his Dignity […] to One:
2. Here is the Thing Assumed. viz. The Singular humane nature of Christ. The Son of God hath taken humane Nature into his own Bo•ome, into nearest Union with His ⟨p. 96⟩own Person. Hence he is said to assume flesh i. e. humane nature and none other, Heb. •. 14. 16. Forasmuch as the children are partaken of flesh and blood, He also Himself took par• 〈…〉 the same; for verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed cmay be affirm'd only of 〈…〉 individual humane nature of Christ. It can•• without Blasphemy and Heresy be affirmed 〈…〉 the individual humane nature of Abraham, 〈…〉 Peter or David or John, or any particular Saint that it is personally united to the Son of God He has taken them into mystical Union himself, but not into personal Union; that is the Prerogative Royal of Jesus Christ Nor indeed was it meet that so great a Dig ty should be common. As Divines right observe, It becomes not the great GOD, who ONE in nature, to communicate his Dignity to One: