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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. VII, Jesus Christ is a Mediator on the behalf of all those that belong to the Cov• nant. The Elect of God, the Church of the first-born, are all concerned in the Mediation o• Christ. They are the seed of Christ, for whom his Soul has travelled, Isai. 53. 11. Hence his Mediatorial Obedience is said to be for many. Rom. 5. 19. By the Obedience of one shall many be made righteous. The Elect of God tho' but few compared with others, yet in themselves considered they are many, And He is said to be a Mediator for all. 1. Cor. 15. 22. In Christ (h. e. in and through him as Mediator of the new Covenant) shall all be made alive. All in that Scripture must be understood in a restrictive sense sc. for all ⟨p. 135⟩such as are there spoken of: all that are made alive. It is in Christ that they are so. He tasted death for every man: that is to say, every man among those Sons whom Christ will bring to Glory, He has tasted death for him. Heb, 2: 9. 10. He is Mediator on behalf of the world: yea, of the whole world. 1. Joh. 2. 1. that is, for all the Elect of God among Gentiles as well as Jews. There is not one elect soul, but Christ is a Mediator for that soul; even for as many as the Father has given to him. He will not suffer so much as one of them to be lost, if his own blood and Intercession can (as most certainly it can) save them. Joh. 18. 9. & 17. 10. And Christ is a Mediator for the elect, not only after they believe (tho then in a peculiar manner; If any man that has fellowship with him fall into sin, Jesus Christ the righteous is an Advocate with the Father for Him) but before they believe Christ has been a Mediator on their behalf. Cap. 17. 20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me. Otherwise they would never believe. Hence it is that the Covenant taketh hold on all the house of Israel. h. e. the elect of God. It can't be but that a new heart should be given to them. They must repent and believe. Christ