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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. II. All those Scriptures which speak of Jesus Christ's being offered on the account of the sins of his people, evince the Truth of this Doctrine of Christ's SATISFACTION. For that was the end of Christs being made an Offering for Sin, that Satisfaction to divine Justice might thereby be accomplished. In the Scriptures Christ is said to be an Oblation, Heb. 10. 10 & 9. 28. And Sacrifice, ver. 26. 1. Cor▪ 5. 7. On the same account Christ is called a Lamb, Joh. 1. 29. And an Altar, Heb. 13. 10. And this was the great intendment of all Sacrifices under the Law, even to hold forth the Satisfaction of Christ. When they were offered God was pacified towards his Sinning people: see 1. Sam. 26. 19. If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering. q. d. Let Him be appeased or satisfied therewith: see also 2. Sam. 24. 25. Gen. 8. 20. 26. The Lord smelled a sweet savour. The Expression intimates that God was well pleased with that Offering. Now those Sacrifices could not of themselves satisfy or appease the the wrath of God, it was not possible that they should, Heb. 10. 4. only as they were Types of ⟨p. 169⟩Christ, and did put the Lord in mind of the Sacrifices of the New Testament in due time to be offered. God was pacified towards Believers under the Old Testament on the account of this Sacrifice which was to take place when the Fullness of time should come, Heb. 9. 15.
Arg. II. All those Scriptures which speake of Jesus Christ's being offered on the account of the sins of his people, evince the Truth of this Doctrine of Christ's SATISFACTION. For that was the end of Christs being made an Offering for Sin, that Satisfaction to divine Justice might thereby be accomplished. In the Scriptures Christ is said to be an Oblation,