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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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The other part is his Mediation, He is now, being exalted to the right hand of Majesty on high, in the actual performance of and will be so as long as this world shall endure. Heb. 7. 28. Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him, since he ever liveth to make intercession for you. Christ now that he is in heaven does present before God the virtue and value of his blood: So is he a Mediator before the Throne of Grace. Hence his blood is said to speak. We are come to the blood of sprinkling which speaker better things than that of Abel. There is ⟨p. 139⟩now before the Throne a Lamb as it had been slain. Rev. 9, 6, And when God look••• upon him, it speaketh for Mercy, Pardon, Life, Salvation to be bestowed upon all them, for whom the Lamb has been slain: and this Jesus declares it to be his mind & Will, that for His Sake they should be pardoned and saved.
The other part is his Mediation, He is now, being exalted to the right hand of Majesty on high, in the actual performance of and will be so as long as this world shall endure. Heb. 7. 28. Wherefore he is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him, since he ever liveth to make intercession for you. Christ now that he is in heaven does present before God the virtue and value of his bloud: So is he a Mediator before the Throne of Grace. Hence his bloud is said to speak. We are come to the bloud of sprinkling which speaker better things than that of Abel. There is ⟨p. 139⟩now before the Throne a Lamb as it had been slain. Rev. 9, 6, And when God look••• upon him, it speaketh for Mercy, Pardon, Life, Salvation to be bestowed upon all them, for whom the Lamb has been slain: and this Jesus declares it to be his mind & Will, that for His Sake they should be pardoned and saved.