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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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Hence it comes to pass that the misery of the damned is ETERNAL, because they are never able to make full satisfaction to the ⟨p. 177⟩glorious Justice of the Holy God, who hath been wronged and offended by the sins of men.
Consid. 2. The blessed Condition they are in •ho have a real Interest in this Satisfaction. God is pleased with them; for he is more pleased with the Righteousness of Christ, than ever He was displeased with the Disobedience of men. Christ hath pleased God more than all the sins of the Elect have provoked him, Rom. 5. 19. Joh. 10. 10. It is a full and perfect Satisfaction which Christ has made, so as that he hath left nothing for any one to come and do after him, Heb. 7. 25. The Bill is cancelled even the Hand-Writing which was against us Col. 2. 14.
Consid. 2. The blessed Condition they are in •ho have a real Interest in this Satisfaction. God is pleased with them; for he is more pleased with the Righteousness of Christ, than ever He was displeased with the Disobedience of men. Christ hath pleased God more than all the sins of the Elect have provoked him, Rom. 5. 19. Joh. 10. 10. It is a full and perfect Satisfaction which Christ has made, so as that he hath left nothing for any one to come and do after him, Heb. 7. 25. The Bill is cancel'd even the Hand-Writting which was against us