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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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But when it is said that the Man Jesus sits at the right hand of God, the meaning of that Expression is, that that Man is next to God in Glory. Heavenly Mysteries are in the Scripture expressed by earthly Similitudes, that we may be able to conceive something of them. ⟨p. 200⟩Amongst men when a King sits on his Throne, the man that sits on his right hand is in Dignity next to him, he's the Second in the Kingdom; Thus there is none in heaven above the Man Christ Jesus except only God the Father. As the King of ••gypt said to Joseph (the true Type of Christ) Gen. 41. 40. Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled, only in the Throne will I be greater than thou. After the like manner does God speak to the Man Christ Jesus saying, My whole Family in heaven and on earth shall be ruled according to thy word, only in the Throne will I be greater than thou. In this respect the Man Christ Jesus is more glorious than any of the Children of men: yea, than all the Angels in heaven. Heb. 1. 13. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot stool. This Session at the right hand of God, is the highest degree of glorious Exaltation. The first degree of Christ's Exaltation was in his Resurrection from the dead; this is common to all Believers, with and for the sake of Christ their Head. The second degree of Christ's Exaltation was in his Ascension to heaven; this also may be affirmed of all the Elect after the day of Judgment: But it cannot be said of any man except Christ alone, that he ever did or ever shall ⟨p. 201⟩sit at the right hand of God. To sit at his right hand is to be installed into the very Throne of God. Hence is that Expression, Heb. 12. 2. Jesus is sate down at the right hand of the throne of God: which showeth, that Christ's being at the right hand of God, implieth his being set down on the same Throne which God is said to sit upon. This is peculiar to the man Christ Jesus. Glorified Saints sit upon Christ's Throne, but only Christ sits upon God's Throne.