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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.
Propos. II. By Reason of the Union of the two natures of Christ, There is a Communication of Properties. This followeth undeniably from the Hypostatical union of the two Natures of Christ, and is also a Demonstration of the truth of this Doctrine, that there is a personal Union. Hence that which does belong properly to the Person of Christ, is ascribed to either nature. e. g. Mediation with the Father belongs to the Person of Christ: nevertheless it is ascribed to the Manhood. 'Tis said, the Man Christ Jesus is the Mediator, 1. Tim. 2. 5. Yet Christ is not Mediator as man only, but as God-man. Likewise that which does belong to either nature is affirmed of the person. Eternity, and Immutability are essential propertye• ⟨p. 99⟩of the Divine Nature: And yet these properties are affirmed of the Person of Christ. Heb. 13. 8. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to day and for ever. Again, Mortality or Subjection to Death was proper to the humane nature, Joh. 6. 51. The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. It was only the flesh of Christ that dyed: yet this is spoken of his Person Rom. 8. 32, 34. God spared not his own son, It is Christ that dyed. Hence the Scripture speaks of God's Suffering and Dying. God bought the Church with his own blood. Act. 20. 28. Hereby perceive we the Love of God, because he laid down his Life 1. Joh. 3. 16. The Personal Union is the reason of such Expressions. For because of that the •loud of Christ is truly said to be the blood of God; and the Life of Christ to be the life of God. That Person who is God, laid down his Life and shed his blood to save Sinners. Were not the Humane nature of Christ one in person with the Divine nature, it could not be said that God laid down his life.