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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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Don't think now to ward of the blow, and […] stave of Convictions by saying, We are all Christians, we have all an Interest in Christ. O that it were so! O that there were not one Christless sinner in the Congregation! But for the Lord's sake deceive not your own souls. What Communion has Christ with Belial? If […] say they have Fellowship with him, and yet walk in darkness, the Truth is not in them. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, Yea, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Let every soul then that is not become a new creature, receive conviction and be awakened with the sense of ⟨p. 148⟩their misery. Awake thou that sleepest, an• rise from the Dead, and Christ shall give the Light
Do'nt think now to ward of the blow, and 〈…〉 •tave of Convictions by saying, We are all Christians, we have all an Interest in Christ. O that it were so! O that there were not one Christless sinner in the Congregation! But for the Lord's sake deceive not your own souls. What Communion has Christ with Belial? If 〈…〉 say they have Fellowship with him, and yet walk in darkness, the Truth is not in them. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts, Yea, If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Let every soul then that is not become a new creature, receive conviction and be awakened with the sense of ⟨p. 148⟩their misery. Awake thou that sleepest, an• rise from the Dead, and Christ shall give the Light
USE. 3. Here is matter of glorious Cons• lation, and Encouragement unto those that come to Jesus Christ. There is admirable Sweetness and Consolation in these two or three words. JESUS THE MEDIATOR. The Sum and Sweetness of the Gospel is contained in this, that, Jesus is the Mediator. I shall mention here some (and but a few of many) comfortable Considerations, which flow and follow from the Doctrine of Christ's Mediation.