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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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If Christ had dyed for them that perish, then Satisfaction is required twice for the same Debt. If Christ has undertaken and satisfied for them; why then are they made an eternal Sacrifice to the Justice of God. We may not think that Christ has dyed in vain Gal. 2. 21. Yet so it would be, if His blood has bin shed for those that shall have no benefit by it.
If Christ had dyed for them that perish, then Satisfaction is required twice for the same Debt. If Christ has undertaken and satisfied for them; why then are they made an eternal Sacrifice to the Justice of God. We may not think that Christ has dyed in vain Gal. 2. 21. Yet so it would be, if His bloud has bin shed for those that shall have no benefit by it.
Propos. VIII. Jesus Christ is an eternal Mediator. There was before the world began an eternal Transaction between the Father and the Son concerning the work of Redemption, wherein the Father agreed with the Son, that if he would satisfy divine Justice, that then the Elect should be saved; and the Son engaged that he would do it: And in order thereunto would become a man, and make himself an Offering for Sin. Isai. 53, 10. ⟨p. 137⟩In this Respect He was set up as a Mediator from everlasting. Prov. 8. 23. Also the Mediation of Christ has taken place in all ages of the world, from the very Beginning of it. He was slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13. 8. He was so Typically in respect of those Sacrifices which were once of Divine Institution, and began with the first •ge of the world, and in respect of the Deree of God; also in respect of the Efficacy of his Death. Indeed, The Son of God actually began the work of a Redeemer when he became Incarnate, and first entered upon his […] of Humiliation. But before that God took the Word of his Son concerning this matter: so that his Mediation was effectual before his Incarnation. And thence the sins of the Elect who dyed before Christ came ino the world were pardoned, as well as those who have been born since that.