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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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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.
We come now to the second Thing propounded in order to the Doctrine before us, That is to show,
We come now to the second Thing propounded in order to the Doctrine before us, That is to shew,
That Christ hath satisfied the Father for the Wrong that hath been done by the Sins of his People. This is a great Mystery of the Gospel▪ all the Knowledge we have about it is supernatural. The Light of Nature discovers nothing about this, tho the Light of nature discovers, that Satisfaction is necessary, yet not how or which way this should be effected: thence the Gentiles knew the former, but were Ignorant of this latter, albeit some of them thought it must be Cruore h•mano, by ⟨p. 167⟩the death of a man. Only the Scriptures do most clearly & abundantly reveal this Truth: we shall therefore keep close to the Scripture in producing Arguments for the Confirmation of the Doctrine before us.
That Christ hath satisfyed the Father for the Wrong that hath been done by the Sins of his People. This is a great Mystery of the Gospel▪ all the Knowledge we have about it is supernatural. The Light of Nature discovers nothing about this, tho the Light of nature discovers, that Satisfaction is necessary, yet not how or which way this should be effected: thence the Gentiles knew the former, but were Ignorant of this latter, albeit some of them thought it must be Cruore h•mano, by ⟨p. 167⟩the death of a man. Only the Scriptures do most clearly & abundantly reveal this Truth: we shall therefore keep close to the Scripture in producing Arugments for the Confirmation of the Doctrine before us.