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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. › USE,
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yea a poor, mortal, sinful woman: yet because of the personal Union of the two Natures of Christ, this is true. The Virgin Mary was, tho a very holy woman, yet not without Sin. Did not […] die to save her? And who did he die for […] only for Sinners? yet she was the mother of the Son of God. Therefore Elizabeth said Whence is this, that the Mother of my Lord should come unto me! Luc. 1. 43. So then, Christ is the most wonderful Person, His Name shall be called Wonderful.
yea a poor, mortal, sinful woman: yet because of the personal Union of the two Natures of Christ, this is true. The Virgin Mary was, tho a very holy woman, yet not without Sin. Did not 〈…〉 dy to save her? And who did he dy for 〈…〉 only for Sinners? yet she was the mother of the Son of God. Therefore Elizabeth said Whence is this, that the Mother of my Lord should come unto me! Luc. 1. 43. So then, Christ is the most wonderful Person, His Name shall be called Wonderful.
Instruct. 2. The human nature of Christ, must needs be most pure and sinless altogether. Adam ⟨p. 109⟩was innocent at his first creation. He had •o sin as he came out of God's hands. Yet there was a possibility of his Sinning; but it was impossible that the nature of Christ should become sinful; that being inconsistent with the grace of personal Union. This Nature was united to the Godhead, from the first Moment of its Conception. Hence the Angel said to the Virgin Mary, The Holy Ghost shall ••me upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall […] shadow thee; therefore also that Holy thing that shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.