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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. Now there is a Mediator for poor Sinners whose Mediation is Meritorious. It is so because, Jesus is the Mediator. There's Merit in the Blood of Christ, for he is the Son of GOD. Had we none but saints or Angels to Mediate for us, we were in a said case, because they can't merit. But Christ has merited all saving good for all his. He is a Redeemer by Price. As for the Elect, He has bought every one of them, body and soul, 1. Cor. 6. 20. Yea, and he hath bought Heaven for them too, which is therefore called the purchased Possession, Eph. 1. 14. And Christ is now Interceding in Heaven through the Merit of his blood. Hence his Blood is said to speak; so says the Apostle here, It speaketh better things than the blood of Abel. It hath a loud Cry with it; a louder than that of Abel's blood; and yet that cried so as that it ⟨p. 151⟩was heard from earth to heaven. Abel's blood •ryed for Vengeance, Christ's Blood cries for Pardon. The blood of Christ cries louder than the Law, or than Sin the strength of the Law; which if it were not for Sin would be able to hurt no man. The Law crieth and says, This is a poor guilty sinner, let him be condemned for ever. But if he be a believing sinner, the blood of Christ cries louder and says, All his sins are satisfied for, and therefore let him be pardoned, and his soul live for ever.
Consid. 3. Now there is a Mediator for poor Sinners whose Mediation is Meritorious. It is so because, Jesus is the Mediator. There's Merit in the Bloud of Christ, for he is the Son of GOD. Had we none but saints or Angels to Mediate for us, we were in a said case, because they can't merit. But Christ has merited all saving good for all his. He is a Redeemer by Price. As for the Elect, He has bought every one of them, body and soul, 1. Cor. 6. 20. Yea, and he hath bought Heaven for them too, which is therefore called the purchased Possession, Eph. 1. 14. And Christ is now Interceding in Heaven through the Merit of his blood. Hence his Blood is said to speak; so sayes the Apostle here, It speaketh better things than the bloud of Abel. It hath a loud Cry with it; a louder than that of Abel's bloud; and yet that cryed so as that it