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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.
To the reader: To the Second Church and Congregation, at Boston in NEW-ENGLAND.
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.
As for the manner of handling what is here delivered, it would have bin easy to have discoursed on such mysterious subjects, after such a Metaphysical strain as none but Scholars should have understood any thing, but in so doing I should neither have pleased God nor edified the souls of many among you. *The most learned and pious Dr. Usher did, even in Oxford it self, d•••y such Corinthian Vanity. And in a Sermon preached to a great & ‖Princely Auditory, he has this notable passage; Great Scholars (said he) may think it stands not with their credit to stoop so low, but let the learnedest of us all try when ever me please, we shall find, that to lay this ground work right, that is, to apply our selves to the capacity of the common Auditory, and to make an ignorant man understand these Mysteries in some good measure, will put us to the trial of our skill, & trouble us a great deal more, than if we were to discuss a Controversy or handle a subtle point of Learning in the Schools.
As for the manner of handling what is here delivered, it would have bin easy to have discoursed on such mysterious subjects, after such a Metaphysical strain as none but Scholars should have understood any thing, but in so doing I should neither have pleased God nor edified the souls of many among you. *The most learned and pious Dr. Usher did, even in Oxford it self, d•••y such Corinthian Vanity. And in a Sermon preached to a great & ‖Princely Auditory, he has this notable passage; Great Scholars (said he) may think it stands not with their credit to stoop so low, but let the learnedest of us all try when ever me please, we shall find, that to lay this ground work right, that is, to apply our selves to the capacity of the common Auditory, and to make an ignorant man understand these Mysteries in some good measure, will put us to the tryal of our skill, & trouble us a great deal more, than if we were to discuss a Controversy or handle a sub•ile point of Learning in the Schools.