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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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So then by being reconciled to God by the death of his Son, we are saved by his life.
USE. 1. By way of Instruction or Information.
Instruct. 1. Hence we must conclude, that Jesus Christ is most worthy of Honour. Its a blessed and most honourable thing to be an Instrument of making peace between Brethren, between man and man who are at variance; How much more is it honourable to be the great Instrument of Settling an ever•••ting peace between God & man! The Office of a Mediator is in it self honourable. So does the Scripture speak of it as a great matter. Isai. 49. 6. Is it a light thing that thou shouldst be […] Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou ••yst be my Salvation to the ends of the earth. ⟨p. 140⟩To be an Instrument of saving one soul, […] a great honour: But what then is it to be the great Cause of the salvation of millions of souls! even of all the Elect, as Jesus Christ is, without whom never any of them had been saved. Christ as Mediator, hath honourab•• Titles given to him in the Scriptures. Those Names of Prophet, Priest, and King, are all of them honourable Names. He is also, as Mediator styled the everlasting Father Isai. 9. 6. The Greek Interpreters render those words, the Father of the world to come. Christ as Mediator is the Father of the new world: Adam is the Father of the old, ruined world. But Christ the second Adam is the Father of the restored, Redeemed world. His People especially have cause to honour him. They can never honour him enough who has ve turd Himself; yea, and has cast his own Body and soul into the flames of divine wrath, that so he might appease that Wrath and quench those Flames on their behalf. Christ as Mediator, is indeed inferior to the Father, but He is superior to every Creature in earth or in heaven. Therefore they all worship the Lamb that was slain, because He is worthy. And the Day is coming when every knee shall bow to the Authority of Christ, and that