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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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That Jesus Christ is the MEDIATOR.
This great Gospel Truth may be Explained and Confirmed in several Propositions,
Prop. 1. That Sin has made a breach between the blessed GOD and the Children of men. This is evidently •mplyed when it is said, there is a Mediator. If Adam had not fallen, and so fallen out with the Holy and glorious Majesty of heaven, there had been no need of a Mediator. The Apostle saith, a Mediator, is not of One, Gal, 8. 20. If God and man had Continued to be at one, there would have been no Mediator. Mediation presupposeth a Breach. If man had not sinned and so broke with God, the eternal Son of God had not taken on Him the Office of a Mediator. Sin hath bred a woeful Distance and Separation between God and the Sinner, Isai. 59. 2. Yea, Sinners are Enemies to God, Rom. 3. 7. And this is true concerning all by Nature. Every man considered as out of Christ, ⟨p. 119⟩he is an Enemy and a Rebel against Heaven; and under the Di•-favour of the Most High. The Elect themselves are by nature the children of wrath even as others, Eph. 2. 3.
Prop. 1. That Sin has made a breach between the blessed GOD and the Children of men. This is evidently •mplyed when it is said, there is a Mediator. If Adam had not fallen, and so fallen out with the Holy and glorious Majesty of heaven, there had been no need of a Mediour. The Apostle saith, a Mediator, is not of One, Gal, 8. 20. If God and man had Continued to be at one, there would have been no Mediator. Mediation presupposeh a Breach. If man had not sinned and so broke with God, the eternal Son of God had not taken on Him the Office of a Mediator. Sin hath bred a woful Distance and Separation between God and the Sinner,