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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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6. The Man Christ Jesus sits at the Right Hand of GOD. It was by the Spirit of Prophesy fore told that so it should be, long ⟨p. 198⟩before the Son of of God became a man. David spake of Christ, when he said, The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand. Psal. 110. 1. And the two last verses in the 16th. P•alm are meant not of David, but of Christ. Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell, neither […] suffer thine holy One to see corruption, tho• […] show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for ever more. Says Christ, though I shall be laid in the grave; I shan't continue there so long as to see corruption, but God will make me alive again, and bring me into His presence in heaven, there to enjoy everlasting pleasures at His own Right hand. And the Gospel gives us a clear information concerni•• the accomplishment hereof; and when it was that the humane nature of Christ was thus glorified▪ viz. after he had suffered for the sins of his people. Heb. 10. 12. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sate down at the right hand of God. And in Chapt. 1. 3. When he had by himself purged our sins, He sate down on the right hand of Majesty on high. The High Priest after he had offered a solemn Anniversary Sacrifice, went into the Holy Place but did not sit down there; wh•nas the man Christ Jesus (the great High ⟨p. 199⟩Priest of our Christian Profession) after He had offered himself a Sacrifice for sin, went to heaven and is there sate down at the right hand of Majesty that is of God, whom the Hebrews are wont to call by the Name of Majesty. Now when it is said that Christ […] at the right hand of God, we are not to think (as ignorant people do) that this is to be understood literally, or as if the Expression were a proper Form of speech: for GOD is a Spirit, and has not a right hand and a left, as men have. Nor may we Suppose that the Man Christ Jesus is always Sitting now he is in heaven. Hence sometimes in the Scripture He is represented as standing at the right hand of God. Steven being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly into heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.