N00342:313
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. As for the Matter of the Psalm, It does contain, A Description of Christ in His Glory and of the Church in her Beauty.
In the words before us (which begin the ⟨p. 184⟩Matter of the psalm) Christ is declared a superlatively excellent person, to be one of incomparable beauty and glory. Thou art fair••• The Hebrew word [Jophjaphitha] is of a double form to note a (double that is a) perfect Beauty, or Beauty in the highest degree. And whereas the Beauty of Christ is compared with and preferred to that of any of the Children of men, that showeth that the words are not to be interpreted of Christ in respect of his Deity, for so His Excellency admits of no Comparison, but of him as the Son of man, 'Tis meant of a communicated Beauty, even a glory which the humane nature of Christ is for ever blessed with, as the last words in the verse intimate.
In the words before us (which begin the ⟨p. 184⟩Matter of the psalm) Christ is declared a superlatively excellent person, to be one of incomparable beauty and glory. Thou art fair••• The Hebrew word [Jophjaphitha] is of a double form to note a (double that is a) perfect Beauty, or Beauty in the highest degree. And whereas the Beauty of Christ is compared with and preferred to that of any of the Children of men, that sheweth that the words are not to be interpreted of Christ in respect of his Deity, for so His Excellency admits of no Comparison, but of him as the Son of man, 'Tis meant of a communicated Beauty, even a glory which the humane nature of Christ is for ever blessed with, as the last words in the verse intimate.