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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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Consid. 3. There is no escaping this wrath without an Interest in CHRIST. None but JESUS can deliver from the wrath to come. 1. Thes. 1. 16. All the World cannot •ave thee without Christ. They that were ⟨p. 146⟩stung with the fiery deadly Serpents in […] Wilderness, except they looked unto the brazen Serpent dyed of their wounds: The deadly Stings of Sin are in thy soul, If JESUS the Mediator does not heal thee, there is no Remedy, but thou must dye. In vain will it be to hope for Salvation in any other way Men that are dying, are ready to catch at any thing to save their lives; So 'tis with poor, perishing, damning Souls, they are ready to lay hold on their Duties, good Meanings, any thing to save them. But in vain is Salvation hoped for from the hills and the multitude of mountains. Nothing without Jesus the Mediator ever did or can save a soul from Death and Wrath.
Consid. 3. There is no escaping this wrath without an Interest in CHRIST. None but JESUS can deliver from the wrath to come. 1. Thes. 1. 16. All the World cannot •ave thee without Christ. They that were ⟨p. 146⟩stung with the fiery deadly Serpents in 〈…〉 Wilderness, except they looked unto the brazen Serpent dyed of their wounds: The deadly Stings of Sin are in thy soul, If JESUS the Mediator does not heal thee, there is no Remedy, but thou must dye. In vain will it be to hope for Salvation in any other way Men that are dying, are ready to catch at any thing to save their lives; So 'tis with poor, perishing, damning Souls, they are ready to lay hold on their Duties, good Meanings, any thing to save them. But in vain is Salvation hoped for from the hills and the multitude of mountaines. Nothing without Jesus the Mediator ever did or can save a soul from Death and Wrath.
Consid. 4. They that have heard of a Mediator, and yet live and dye in a Christless Estate, will, of all creatures in the world, be most miserable for ever. They are most inexcusable. They have no clock for their Sin. Their souls are naked to the Lashes of Divine Vengeance.