N00342:26
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IT hath been observed by some, That of all the Prophets Isaiah is the most Evangelical. Nor is there any part of his Prophecy that hath more of Gospel in it than this Fifty third Chapter; wherein he speaks as if he wrote rather an History than a Prophecy. He speaketh as if he had lived in the days of the Gospel, and been an eye-witness of the sufferings of Christ and of the Glory which followed thereon.
IT hath been observed by some, That of all the Prophets Isaiah is the most Evangelical. Nor is there any part of his Prophecy that hath more of Gospel in it than this Fifty third Chapter; wherein he speaks as if he wrote rather an History than a Prophecy. He speaketh as if he had lived in the dayes of the Gospel, and been an eye-witness of the sufferings of Christ and of the Glory which followed thereon.
In this verse the Death of Christ is set forth from the Grounds, and also from the Effects of it.
1. From the Grounds from whence it came to pass: 1. From the Pleasure of the Almighty, It pleased the Lord […] bruise Him, He •ath put Him to grief. 2. Another ground of the Sufferings of Christ, is the Covenant of Redemption, which was between God and Christ concerning the Salvation of the Elect; When Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin: according to the Hebrew, the words run thus, If He shall put His soul an offering for sin. [IM-TASIM] Si POS•ERIT. So Ari•s Montanus and others. Which words evidently imply a Compact or glorious Agreement between God the Father and the Son, about this Matter. The Prophet in the ninth verse had declared the Innocency of Christ, He had done no violence, neither was any D•••it found in His mouth. But then it may be said, Why was the Lord pleased to bruise Him? How could that stand with Justice? Answ. Because there had been a voluntary Agreement between GOD and CHRIST concerning this matter; Christ undertaking to do the work of a Redeemer, and to Satisfy the Demands of Justice, and so it might please the Lord to brise Him, and no injury done neither