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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.
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.
Jesus Christ is the Mediator.
HEB. XII. 24. —Jesus Christ is the Mediator.
The Apostle having in the fourteenth verse of this Chapter exhorted the Believing Hebrews to follow Holiness, he does urge that Exhortation by an Argument taken from the Consideration of that better state, which Believers under the New-Testament are in, compared with those of the Old. More Holiness should be the fruit of all gracious Dispensations. The more God does for us, the more ought we to do for Him ⟨p. 116⟩Now He has done more for New than for […] Testament Believers: Therefore they ought to be more holy in heart and life, and to a bound in those fruits of Righteousness which are by Christ to the praise and Glory of God. That gracious State which Believers under the Gospel are in, is set forth;
THe Apostle having in the fourteenth verse of this Chapter exhorted the Beleeving Hebrews to follow Holiness, he does urge that Exhortation by an Argument taken from the Consideration of that better state, which Believers under the New-Testament are in, compared with those of the Old. More Holiness should be the fruit of all gracious Dispensations. The more God does for us, the more ought we to do for Him ⟨p. 116⟩Now He has done more for New than for Testament Believers: Therefore they ought to be more holy in heart and life, and to a bound in those fruits of Righteousness which are by Christ to the praise and Glory of God. That gracious State which Believers under the Gospel are in, is set forth;