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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. 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. Joh. 15. 22. There have been Thousands of Millions that have gone down into eternal Darkness, who never heard of JESUS the Mediator, but their Condemnation will not be so dreadful at the Last Day, as of them ⟨p. 147⟩that lived under the Gospel; and had the Of•er of Christ and Life set before them, but they chose death rather than life, Sin rather than Christ. It will be more tolerable for the vilest wretch in Sodom at the day of Judgement than for such Christ-Despisers, Mat. 10. 15. O to despise a Mediator is such a sin as there is none like unto it. He that despised Moses Law dyed without mercy, of how much sorer punishment suppose you shall he be thought worthy, who was trodden under foot the Son of God? If they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him, that speaketh from heaven.
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 inexcu•eable. They have no clock for their Sin. Their souls are naked to the Lashes of Divine Vengeance. Joh. 15. 22. There have been Thousands of Millions that have gone down into eternal Darkness, who never heard of JESUS the Mediator, but their Condemnation will not be so dreadful at the Last Day, as of them ⟨p. 147⟩that lived under the Gospel; and had the Of•er of Christ and Life set before them, but they chose death rather than life, Sin rather than Christ. It will be more tolerable for the vilest wretch in Sodom at the day of Judgement than for such Christ-Despisers,