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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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1. It is evident in that God hath decreed & declared that Sin shall be punished. There is an Eternal Decree concerning this Thing. Now upon a supposition of the Decree of God, that Sin shall be punished, it necessarily follows that the Event will be accordingly. For the Decrees of God are unchangeable: Hence are they fitly compared ⟨p. 161⟩to mountains of brass. Zech. 6. 1. Also this Decree is published, viz. In the written Law, Gal. 3. 10. Yea, When God made man at at first, He did peremptorily declare that Sin should be punished with Death. Gen. 2. 17. Wherefore the Apostle saith, that It is appointed unto men once to dye, Heb. 9. 27. There is a Statute law which must take place, sc. that in Gen. 2. 17. So that it cannot stand with the Wisdom nor with the Veracity of God to pardon sin without Satisfaction; He having decreed and declared otherwise.
1. It is evident in that God hath decreed & declared that Sin shall be punished. There is an Eternal Decree concerning this Thing. Now upon a supposition of the Decree of God, that Sin shall be punished, it necessarily followes that the Event will be accordingly. For the Decrees of God are unchangeable: Hence are they fitly compared ⟨p. 161⟩to mountains of brass. Zech. 6. 1. Also this Decree is published, viz. In the written Law, Gal. 3. 10. Yea, When God made man at at first, He did peremptorily declare that Sin should be punished with Death. Gen. 2. 17. Wherefore the Apostle saith, that It is appointed unto men once to dye,