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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. VI. Jesus Christ is the ONLY Mediator. It is not only true that He is a Mediator, but that He alone is so. 1. Tim. 2. 5. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus. Wherefore my Text does not only say that Jesus is A Mediator, but that He is the Mediator of the New-Covenant: Implying that He, and He only is so. To be a Mediator, is a Godlike Royalty, and can belong but to one. Indeed Moses in respect of his standing between the Lord and his People was a Typical Mediator: Deut. 5. 5. Gal. 3. 19. But the Mediator is here in my Text set in opposition to Moses. There neither is nor ever was nor ever shall there be, such a Mediator as Christ is, besides himself alone. This Mysterious and glorious Truth of the Gospel is evident from several Arguments.
1. It was signified by Types in the days of the Old Testament. Moses alone was […] come near the Lord Exod. 24. 2. There might not be any Man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation when the Priest went to make Atonement, Lev. 16. 17. The High-Priest ⟨p. 132⟩went alone into the second Tabernacle, Heb. 9. 7. Moreover, There was to be but one High-Priest at the same time. By all which things are signified, that there is no mediator to be acknowledged besides Jesus Christ alone.
1. It was signified by Types in the dayes of the Old Testament. Moses alone was 〈…〉 come near the Lord Ex•d. 24. 2. There might not be any Man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation when the Priest went to make Atonement,