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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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The mediatorial Office of Christ is Kingly. It is most true, that, There is an eternal essential Sovereignty which belongs to Christ, as God coeternal and coequal with the Father, but there is moreover, a Donative Kingdom, which belongs to him as Mediator under the Father. Psal. 2. 6. Mat. 28. 18. Joh. 5. 27. ⟨p. 129⟩God ruleth over all: but by Christ, into whose hands all things are committed by the Father. Therefore Ezekiel in that glorious vision, Cap. 1. ver. 26. saw a Throne and a man upon it. Signifying that Christ as man & Mediator has the Government of the world put into his hands, to dispose of all affairs so as shall be to the glory of the Father, and the good and Salvation of his people. But eminently
The mediatorial Office of Christ is Kingly. It is most true, that, There is an eternal essential Soveraingty which belongs to Christ, as God coeternal and coequal with the Father, but there is moreover, a Donative Kingdom, which belongs to him as Mediator under the Father. Psal. 2. 6. Mat. 28. 18. Joh. 5. 27. ⟨p. 129⟩God ruleth over all: but by Christ, into whose hands all things are committed by the Father. Therefore Ezekiel in that glorious vision, Cap. 1. ver. 26. saw a Throne and a man upon it. Signifying that Christ as man & Mediator has the Government of the world put into his hands, to dispose of all affairs so as shall be to the glory of the Father, and the good and Salvation of his people. But eminently