N00342:310
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(1.) The Quality of the Matter here contained, 'tis called a good matter. The Hebrew phrase [dabar Tob] signifieth a good word: Intimating that the Things contained therein are of singular Worth and Excellency.
(1.) The Quality of the Matter here contained, 'tis called a good matter. The Hebrew phrase [dabar Tob] signifyeth a good word: Intimating that the Things contained therein are of singular Worth and Excellency.
(2.) The Subject of this good Matter• Touching the King: which Interpreters generally expound of King Solomon, but of him, only as a Type. The Hebrew Doctors themselves acknowledge that the King Messiah is here principally intended. And there are diverse passages in the Psalm which cannot be applied to Solomon, nor to any other person besides Christ And therefore the Apostle in the first Chapter to the Hebrews quoting some ⟨p. 183⟩Expressions in this Psalm saith they are meant of Christ the Son of God.
(2.) The Subject of this good Matter• Touching the King: which Interpreters generally expound of King Solomon, but of him, only as a Type. The Hebrew Doctors themselves acknowledge that the King Messiah is here principally intended. And there are diverse passages in the Psalm which cannot be applyed to Solomon, nor to any other person besides Christ And therefore the Apostle in the first Chapter to the Hebrews quoting some ⟨p. 183⟩Expressions in this Psalm saith they are meant of Christ the Son of God.