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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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2. Another miraculous Thing which did attend the Baptism of Christ was, that the Holy Ghost did visibly descend upon them like a Dove. (ibid.) And this might be, that so the Prophesy of Isaiah might be fulfilled literally as well as spiritually, Cap. 61. 1. The Spirit of the Lord is come upon me. Also there by to Intimate, how Christ was filled was the Spirit of Innocency and Meekness.
3. There was a miraculous Voice which came from God out of Heaven; and that is expressed in this verse, wherein we have a most glorious, Divine Testimony concerning Christ: GOD from Heaven does here testify two things of Him:
1. That He is His Son, yea, His Beloved Son. He is so His Son, as none else is; so Beloved, as none else is. Angels are the sons of God, but they only in respect of Creation. Believers are the Sons of God, but in respect of Adoption: Whereas Christ is ⟨p. 159⟩not the son of God on those accounts, but in respect of nature. And therefore Jesus Christ is more dear to God than all Saints and Angels.