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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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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. Luc. 1. 35. So that he was free from Original Sin, that Corruption of Nature, which […] in•ected all Man-kind besides. For Adam stood in the Capacity of a public person, on the behalf of such only as should come into the world by Generation, which Christ did not; […] by […] Conception from the Holy Ghost, Nor did he ever become guilty of […] Sin. Tho he lived in the world thirty two years, he never spake one sinful word, not ever had one sinful thought in His Heart all that while. He kept the whole Law perfectly, to as never to fail in so much as one particular. There never was any other man that did so, or that could do so since Adam sinned. He is, and always was Altogether lovely.
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 Mo•ent 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.