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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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Instruction. 1. Hence Jesus Christ is the great Wonder of the world. Jesus Christ is a None such. There is no such person in heaven […] earth concerning whom it may be said, Th•• Person is both God and man, excepting only the Man Christ Jesus. Men are apt to be taken with Wonders: As the King of Babylon sent to Hezekiah to enquire of the Wonder Here is a Wonder for us all to be taken with that the Word should be made flesh. If we do a little meditate on […] Incarnation & the Personal Union of the two Natures of Christ, we shall see that which is Wonderful. What […] Wonder is […] that two natures, so infinitely Distant should meet together in one Person The Divine Nature is infinitely above the […] ⟨p. 107⟩glorious Creatures. GOD humbleth Himself is behold the things that are done in heaven, •sal. 113. 5, 6. And the Humane Nature, what a poor thing is it in it self considered! One may even wonder that GOD should so much as look upon man. What is Man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man that Thou visitest him! But, That GOD should become one with man, yea, that GOD should become a man, that the Word should be made Flesh, how wonderful is it! In former Times, the Saints have been afraid to behold the Glory of GOD sparkling in the Countenance of an Angel, but behold and wonder, Here is an humane Nature not only Seeing the Glory of God, but United to Him. An Immanuel, GOD dwelling in our Nature. That MAJESTY and meanness should thus meet together! Is it not a Wonder, that One and the same person should be capable of a double Generation, one Eternal, and the other in Time? But this is true concerning Jesus Christ. He is the eternally begotten Son of of GOD. It is a Generation which neer had a Beginning or Ending. Psal. . 7. Yet was He brought forth in the lness of Time, in Respect of His