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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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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. 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 ⟨p. 98⟩his body say in the Grave and his soul in Paradise, both body and soul were united to the Divine Nature. As Death dissolveth not the mystical union which is between Christ and the Believer, so neither did it the personal Union between the two natures of Christ. Hence Christ's Incarnation is not properly any part of his Humiliation: For his state of Humiliation is laid down, whereas his humane nature i• not laid aside, nor ever shall be.
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 ⟨p. 98⟩his body say in the Grave and his soul in Paradise, both body and soul were united to the Divine Nature. As Death di••olveth not the mystical union which is between Christ and the Believer, so neither did it the personal Union between the two natures of Christ. Hence Christ's Incarnation is not properly any part of his Humiliation: For his state of Humiliation is laid down, whe•as his humane nature i• not layd aside, nor ever shall be.