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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. It is Evident in that God is the SUPREME Governor and Judge of All. Gen. 18. 25. Rom. 3. 5, 6. God hath not only an absolute Sovereignty over his creatures, in respect whereof He may punish or spare, kill or keep alive; but He is moreover a Judge, in respect whereof it is necessary he should punish the guilty. It is necessary to a Judge to punish where the Law requires him so to do. Now what Law is to another Judge who is to proceed by it, that is the infinite Rectitude of God's own Nature to Him. Tho' the Lord's Dominion be absolute, yet he does not rule (as it were) arbitrarily, without Respect to any Rule or Law. But that God should have any external Law prescribed to him in the Government of the world is infinitely impossible; therefore His Law is the Righteousness of his own Nature. Hence it is necessary, that in […] with his Creatures, He should act according to that, and therefore manifest […] against Sin. GOD in punishing Sin, is Considered not only as an offended […], but as an offended Judge, which cannot but do that which is right, and ought to be done.
2. It is Evident in that God is the SUPREAM Governour and Judge of All. Gen. 18. 25. Rom. 3. 5, 6. God hath not only an absolute Soveraignty over his creatures, in respect whereof He may punish or spare, kill or keep alive; but He is moreover a Judge, in respect whereof it is necessary he should punish the guilty. It is necessary to a Judge to punish where the Law requires him so to do. Now what Law is to another Judge who is to proceed by it, that is the infinite Rectitude of God's own Nature to Him. Tho' the Lord's Dominion be absolute, yet he does not rule (as it were) arbitrarily, without Respect to any Rule or Law. But that God should have any external Law prescribed to him in the Government of the world is infinitely impossible; therefore His Law is the Righteousness of his own Nature. Hence it is necessary, that in 〈…〉 with his Creatures, He should act according to that, and therefore manifest 〈…〉 against Sin. GOD in punishing Sin, is Considered not only as an offended 〈…〉, but as an offended Judge, which cannot but do that which is right, and ought to be done.