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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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Propos. II. Jesus Christ has on the behalf of his Elect, undertaken to make up the breach between the Lord and them. Christ has taken up the Controversy between the blessed GOD and poor Sinners, and is under engagement to reconcile them. Therefore is he said to be a Mediator. A Mediator [Mesites] is a middle person which cometh between two differing parties to set them at one again. It is noted concerning Moses, when he saw two persons at variance, he would have set them at one again. Act. 7. 26. he offered to be a Mediator between them. He was in that a Type of Christ who has not only attempted, but gloriously accomplished a Reconciliation between Heaven and earth, God and the world. When the First Covenant was broken, and thereby God and man set at variance; the question was, Who shall make up this breach? The Son of God steps in and undertakes to do it. Therefore He is said to be the Mediator of the New Covenant. Hence he is in the Scripture styled the Prince of Peace. Isai. 9. 6. ⟨p. 120⟩And so to be our Peace, i. e. our Peace-maker Eph. 2. 14. And the Reconciler of God to the world, and of the world to God. Col. 1. 20. 2. Cor. 9. 18, 19. He does conciliate, h. e. obtain the favour of God for his people. He causeth Believers on him to become Favourites in the Court of Heaven. Hence we often read of the Grace of Christ; thereby is meant the Favour of God obtained by Christ.
Propos. II. Jesus Christ has on the behalf of his Elect, undertaken to make up the breach between the Lord and them. Christ has taken up the Controversy between the blessed GOD and poor Sinners, and is under engagement to reconcile them. Therefore is he said to be a Mediator. A Mediator [Mesites] is a middle person which cometh between two differing partyes to set them at one again. It is noted concerning Moses, when he saw two persons at variance, he would have set them at one again. Act. 7. 26. he offered to be a Mediator between them. He was in that a Type of Christ who has not only attempted, but gloriously accomplished a Reconciliation between Heaven and earth, God and the world. When the First Covenant was broken, and thereby God and man set at variance; the question was, Who shall make up this breach? The Son of God steps in and undertakes to do it. Therefore He is said to be the Mediaor of the New Covenant. Hence he is in the Scripture styled the Prince of Peace.