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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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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.
Arg. I. All those Scriptures which speak of God being pacified by Christ, prove that he hath satisfied the Father. For that is intended by the Satisfaction of Christ, viz. That He hath done that whereby God is pacified towards His people; all their sins and Injuries offered to him thereby, notwithstanding. But this the Scripture speaketh abundantly of. Hence God is said to be pleased in and by Him, as as we have heard the Text before us expressing. Hence we read of Reconciliation by Christ,