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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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3. The Man Christ Jesus is more like unto God than may be affirmed of any other man or Angel. And indeed it must needs be so, because He has a greater intimacy of Communion with God, than ever man or Creature had. We read concerning Moses, that GOD spake with him face to face, as a man speaketh with his Friend; and the Lord said of him (Numb. 12. 8.) With him will I speak mouth to mouth, and the […] of the Lord shall be behold. Moses was in that thing a Type of Christ, who has such Familiarity with GOD the Father of Glory as never any one else had. He is (to speak after the manner of men) God's Privy-Counsellor. Wherefore it is said, no man hath seen God at any time. (No not Moses himself so as Christ has seen Him) The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. Joh. 1. 18. Now Moses by conversing with God became more like him than any other man; Impressions of the Divine GLORY were left upon his Countenance. How much more is it true concerning the man Christ Jesus, who •ieth in the Bo•ome of God the Father! This man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses Heb. 3. 3. Hence the Apostle speaks of, The ⟨p. 191⟩Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. 4▪ 6. Sa•es he, The glory of God did appear in the face of Moses, but how much more in the Face of Jesus Christ! Yea the man Christ Jesus is so like unto God, as that he is said to be his very Image. Col. 1. 15. who is the image of the invisible God. There is a double Image of God; His Essential Image. so Christ as Second Person or Son of God is the Image of the Father: And a manif•stative Image, so Christ as man is the Image of God. †