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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.
(1.) In the same Person. For the humane ⟨p. 97⟩••ture of Jesus Christ is not a Person it self […]: it is a mystery which all men had bin ignorant of had it not been for the humane nature of Christ, that its possible for humane nature to subsist without it Personality. All other humane natures are distinct persons of themselves, but the humane nature of Christ is not so: For then there would be Four Persons in the Godhead; Three of them eternal, and one of them made of a woman in the Fullness of time. We must therefore know, that there is in Christ, a personal Union, but not an Union of Persons; and a Union of natures, yet not a Union of Persons. The Humane Nature of Christ did not subsist one moment, before its being united to the Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity.
(1.) In the same Person. For the humane ⟨p. 97⟩••ture of Jesus Christ is not a Person it self 〈…〉: it is a mystery which all men had bin ig•orant of had it not been for the humane nature of Christ, that its possible for humane nature to subsist without it Personality. All other humane natures are distinct persons of themselves, but the humane nature of Christ is not so: For then there would be Four Persons in the Godhead; Three of them eternal, and one of them made of a woman in the Fulness of time. We must therefore know, that there is in Christ, a personal Union, but not an Union of Persons; and a Union of natures, yet not a Union of Persons. The Humane Nature of Christ did not subsist one moment, before its being united to the Son of God, the second Person in the Trinity.
2. The human Nature of Christ does subsist Inseparably as well as personally with the Son of God. This Union is an everlasting Union. The humane Nature never did exist one moment before its being united to the divine, nor ever shall be disunited from it. As long as God shall be God, so long shall the personal union of Christ's humane nature with the divine continue. When Christ dyed and his soul was separated from his body, yet his humane nature was not separated from his divine; but when