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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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1. Negatively, in the 18, 19, 20, and 21. verses of this Chapter; the Scope and Sum•• whereof amounts to thus much: We are not now under the sad, severe & servile Dispensations of the Law, but under one more gracious, and therefore we ought to be more holy. Holiness was required under the Law. When that was prom••ged, the Children of Israel were to purify themselves, and to […] their clothes; by which Ceremonies they were taught inward Holiness. Much more should they to whom the Gospel is made known, follow Holiness.
1. Negatively, in the 18, 19, 20, and 21. verses of this Chapter; the Scope and Sum•• whereof amounts to thus much: We are not now under the sad, severe & servile Dispensations of the Law, but under one more gracious, and therefore we ought to be more holy. Holiness was required under the Law. When that was prom••ged, the Children of Israel were to purify themselves, and to 〈…〉 their clothes; by which Ceremonies they were taught inward Holiness. Much more should they to whom the Gospel is made known, follow Holiness.
2. The happy State of Believers is described Affirmatively in this with the two Preceding verses: Wherein is showed that believers now are in a more Filial yea and Celestial state than formerly. Mount Zion is far more excellent than Mount Sinai. The City of the living GOD, than the Wilderness. It is better to have to do with the holy Angels as ⟨p. 117⟩fellow-Servants, than as when the Law was given in that dreadful manner by the Disposition of Angels. The Church of the First-born, is better the Jewish Synagogue. The Manifestation of God as the Judge of all the world, does exceed the manifestation of God as a Law-giver to the Children of Israel only. The Saints in Heaven are more perfect than they on Earth. JESUS is better than Moses. The New-Testament than the Old. The blood of Christ is better than that which is offered by Abel, or by the Fathers of Old: Even so & therefore the state of Believers under the New-Testament, is much more desirable than that of Believers under the Old-Testament Its better being a Christian than a Jew; and thence more Holiness is required.