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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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2. The priest offered Incense. So Christ hath not only made Satisfaction, but He does make Intercession 1. Joh. 2. 1, 2. He is gone to Heaven for that end, which was Typified by the Priest's entering into the Holy place, there to present Incense before the Lord• If the Priest should have only offered sacrifice, and not gone into the Holy place to offer Incense, he would not have done His whole work; so if Christ had not impetrated the Mercy of God for Sinners by Intercession as well as Sacrifice, He would not be a perfect Priest: which thing is intended by the Apostle, when he saith concerning Christ, If He were on earth he should not be a Priest, Heb, 8. 4. Because should he have continued on earth and not gone to heaven there to intercede for his people, He would have done but half the Work of a Priest.
2. The priest offered Incense. So Christ hath not only made Satisfaction, but He does make Intercession 1. Joh. 2. 1, 2. He is gone to Heaven for that end, which was Typified by the Priest's entring into the Holy place, there to present Incense before the Lord• If the Priest should have only offered sacritice, and not gone into the Holy place to offer Incense, he would not have done His whole work; so if Christ had not impetrated the Mercy of God for Sinners by Intercession as well as Sacrifice, He would not be a perfect Priest: which thing is intended by the Apostle, when he saith concerning Christ, If He were on earth he should not be a Priest, Heb, 8. 4. Because should he have continued on earth and not gone to heaven there to intercede for his people, He would have done but halfe the Work of a Priest.
But thus Christ is a Mediator, inasmuch as He does Intercede, and so mediate with the ⟨p. 131⟩Father on the behalf of those that have sinned.