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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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Reas. 1. From the Dignity of Christ's Person. He is the SON of GOD, as the Text, expresseth; and thence a Person of Infinite Worth and Dignity, which doth add value to His Sufferings and Satisfaction. It is true that the Humane nature only suffered, (if we speak strictly) all Passion being incompatible to the Divine Nature, nevertheless by Reason of the personal Union between the two Natures of Christ, that which does properly belong to one nature is truly affirmed of the Person. It is therefore most true that the Second Person of the Trinity, even the Son of GOD Himself, became subject to the penalty of the Law, in order to the appeasing of the wrath and satisfying the Justice of ⟨p. 173⟩the Father, who was the Person directly offend•• sin. What Christ hath done in order to Salvation, He did as Mediator; and therefore not as God only nor as man only but as God-man. Now for such a Person to become subject to the penalty of the Law, and to the Wrath of God, is (as I have else-where expressed) more than if all Men and Angels had •ay'n under His Wrath, through out the days of Eternity: therefore well might the Lord say that He was pleased in, or pacified by his Son Jesus Christ.
Reas. 1. From the Dignity of Christ's Person. He is the SON of GOD, as the Text, expresseth; and thence a Person of Infinite Worth and Dignity, which doth add value to His Sufferings and Satisfaction. It is true that the Humane nature only suffered, (if we speak strictly) all Passion being incompatible to the Divine Nature, nevertheless by Reason of the personal Union between the two Natures of Christ, that which does properly belong to one nature is truly affirmed of the Person. It is therefore most true that the Second Person of the Trinity, even the Son of GOD Himself, became subject to the poenalty of the Law, in order to the appeasing of the wrath and satisfying the Justice of ⟨p. 173⟩the Father, who was the Person directly offend•• sin. What Christ hath done in order to Salvation, He did as Mediator; and therefore not as God only nor as man only but as God-man. Now for such a Person to become subject to the poenalty of the Law, and to the Wrath of God, is (as I have else-where expressed) more than if all Men and Angels had ay'n under His Wrath, through out the dayes of Eternity: therefore well might the Lord say that He was pleased in, or pacifyed by his Son Jesus Christ.