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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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In•tr: 3. Humane Nature is Dignified about any Created Nature. For the Word has not assumed any other nature but that. It is true that of all created natures, the Angelical is the most excellent & glorious. Angels are better than men simply considered. Psal. 8. 9. Yet in respect of the Word's being made flesh the humane nature is exalted above the Angelical. The Son of God is made a man but he is not made an Angel. By reason of this personal Union, diverse things may be said of a man, that cannot be affirmed of the most glorious Angel in heaven. […]. It may be said of a man, that he is God as we as Man. The soul of that Man is the soul of GOD, and the body of that man is the body of God. 1. Cor. 11. 24. It may be said of Him that is a Man, that he is (tho not a man) equal with God. It cannot be said of any one among all the Angels in Heaven, that he is equal with God. It may be said of One among the Sons of men, that He is Fellow to the Lord of Hosts, Zech. 13. • ▪ And equal with God. Joh. 5. 18. Christ counted it no Robbery to say, that he was equal with God. Phil 2. 6. If any Angel in Heaven should say that he is equal with God, it would be the Highest Robbery, the ⟨p. 111⟩most sacrilegious Impiety so to rob God of His Glory. There is none among the Sons of the mighty that may be compared with him. Again, It may be said of Him who is a man, that He did create the world: Tho the world was created Thousands of years be•ore he became a man; nevertheless it is a Truth, that he who is now a man, did create heaven & earth. A Saint in Glory may point into the man Christ Jesus and say, That man there made all the Creatures in the world. Joh. 1. 3. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was match. This is more than can be affirmed of any Angel or Arch-Angel. Once more, A Man shall be the Judge of all the Earth.