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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 None but Christ is fit to be the Mediator. No one else in Heaven or in earth is both God and Man. He is the true Immanuel. He is Immanuel not only in Name, as Isaiah's Son was, (being in that respect a Type of Christ) but in Deed. He the true God being made man, dwelt with us and among us men. Christ is God manifest in the flesh. and there is no God-man but He. And therefore, none but He was fit to come in as a Days-man between the Holy God and offending Sinners. Job. 9. 32. There is none else fit to be a Mediator of Satisfaction besides JESUS. If he had been GOD only, he could not have Satisfied Divine Justice in a way of Suffering. The divine Nature can not suffer. The eternal God-head cannot dye. Had Christ been Man only his Sufferings would not have been Satisfactory. They would not have been of sufficient value to compensate for the infinite wrong which has been done to GOD by the Sins of men. ⟨p. 133⟩For Christ who is God to suffer, tho' but for a few hours, is more than if all men and Angels had we•red under the Wrath of GOD to Eternity. Moreover, The weight of the guilt of Sin which was imputed to Christ, and the Wrath of the Father which lay upon him, would have crushed Him under the insupportable burden of it had he not been more than a man; so that it was necessary that he should be both God and man, that his Sufferings might become Satisfactory. And this Jesus the Son of God is the fittest to be a Mediator of Intercession, because He is most dear unto God, He in whom His very soul does delight. The Son of His Love. God's ear is always open to Him. Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me, and I know that thou hearest me Always, (said Christ,) Joh. 11. 42.
2 None but Christ is fit to be the Mediator. No one else in Heaven or in earth is both God and Man. He is the true Immanuel. He is Immanuel not only in Name, as Isaiah's Son was, (being in that respect a Type of Christ) but in Deed. He the true God being made man, dwelt with us and among us men. Christ is God manifest in the flesh. and there is no God-man but Hee. And therefore, none but He was fit to come in as a Days-man between the Holy God and offending Sinners.