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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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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, 2. Cor. 5. 19. Rom. 5. 10. And of Peace with God through Christ. Cap. 5. 1. Col. 1. 20. And of Atonement by Christ. Rom. 5. 11. And of Christ's being a Propitiation, Cap. 3. 25. 1. Joh. 2. 2. Because in and by Jesus Christ, God does become propitious, i. e. Favourable towards sinners. God had a controversy with all the world for Sin; but as for the Elect of God, Christ hath come and taken up that Controversy, and appeased the Wrath, and obtained the Favour of God, ⟨p. 168⟩therefore we are said to be reconciled and at peace with God by Jesus Christ.
Arg. I. All those Sriptures which speak of God being pacified by Christ, prove that he hath satisfyed 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, 2. Cor. 5. 19. Rom. 5. 10. And of Peace with God through Christ. Cap. 5. 1. Col. 1. 20. And of Attonement by Christ.