N00342:262
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.
MATTH. III. 17. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
IN this Chapter, there are two Things contained.
1. A Sermon preached by John Baptist: whereby he doth prepare his Auditors for Christ.
2. The History of Christ's Baptism: and under that the Evangelist has recorded three miraculous Providences, which did at that time come to pass.
1. The Opening of the Heavens, ver. 15. No doubt but the Heavens were really opened, by the infinite power of the Almighty: whereby may be signified, that Heaven which was shut against all the Children of fallen man is opened to them now, in and by Jesus Christ.