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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
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.
That Book is a Commission to fulfil and execute all the Decrees of God which respect the Government of the world until the day of Judgement. None but the Lamb was found worthy or meet for this. But He took the book: h. e. He hath undertaken the Government of the world until all that God has decreed shall be accomplished: And in ver. 5. He opens the Book• h. e. He seeth to the fulfilment of all according to the mind of the Father. Hence all Creatures are made subject to this Man. The Angels of Heaven are the most glorious of all created Beings, yet they are made subject to this Man. Jesus Christ is gone into Heaven; Angels, Authorities, and Powers, being made subject unto Him. 1. Pet. 3. 22. The highest Angel in Heaven, is no better than a Servant to the Man Christ Jesus. They go upon His Errand wheresoever he is pleased to send them. And He declareth from Heaven to all the world, that the holy Angels are His Subjects and Servants. Rev. 22. 16. I Jesus have sent mine Ange• ▪ ⟨p. 196⟩And this is a mystery which only the Scripture revealeth unto us. The Light of Nature discovers unto us that God Governs the world, but that God-man does so, is not known but by the Gospel.
That Book is a Commission to fulfil and execute all the Decrees of God which respect the Government of the world until the day of Judgement. None but the Lamb was found worthy or meet for this. But He took the book: h. e. He hath undertaken the Government of the world until all that God has decreed shall be accomplished: And in ver. 5. He opens the Book• h. e. He seeth to the fulfilment of all according to the mind of the Father. Hence all Creatures are made subject to this Man. The Angels of Heaven are the most glorious of all created Beings, yet they are made subject to this Man. Jesus Christ is gone into Heaven; Angels, Authorityes, and Powers, being made subject unto Him. 1. Pet. 3. 22. The highest Angel in Heaven, is no better than a Servant to the Man Christ Jesus. They goe upon His Errand wheresoeer he is pleased to send them. And He declareth from Heaven to all the world, that the holy Angels are His Subjects and Servants.