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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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(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.
(3) He declareth what were the Instruments communicating this good Matter concerning the King Christ. Viz. his Heart, and his Tongue. My Heart is inditing. The original word [Racash] signifieth to Boil up; alluding (as it seems) to the [Mincah] or Meat-Offering under the Law, which was boiled or fried with Oil, and so offered to the Lord. Thus the Holy Spirit did as it were set the heart of the Psalmist on fire, and made it to boil up with holy and heart-ravishing meditations concerning the glory of Christ. And then his Tongue became as the Pen of a ready writer. h. e. like one that writeth Short •and; and so will take every word that the Enditer shall speak. His Tongue would express all that the Holy Spirit should indict in his Heart. Thus for the Preface.