N00342:330
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.
7. The blessed Body of Christ now in Heaven shineth with unconceivable Glory. There was a glimpse of this appearing at the time when Christ was Transfigured before Three of his Disciples, and His face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matth. 17. 2. Unto that glorious Transfiguration the Apostle John (no doubt) has respect when he •aith, we behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten son of the Father. Chapt. 1. 14. For at the same time God said from heaven, this is my beloved Son. The bodies of Saints shall have a marvellous Lustre upon them after the Resurrection. (1. Cor. 15. 43. It is raised in glory.) But the Body of Christ is far more glorious than theirs shall be: For indeed it is the Exemplar which the bodies of glorified Saints shall only hold some proportion with Phil. 3. 21. The Lord Jesus Christ shall change ⟨p. 203⟩[…] vile body, that it might be Fashioned like unto His glorious body.—There is one glory of the Sun, and another glory of the Stars (as the Scripture speaks) Such a difference there is and will be to eternity, between the glory of the humane nature of Jesus Christ and what Believers shall in the world to come attain unto: Their glory will fall short of Christ's, as much as that of the stars cometh short of the light and glory of the Sun. The blessed Body belonging to the Son of God, is now brighter than ten Thousand Suns would be. Hence when Christ appeared to Paul as he was in the way to […], Though it was mid-day, he saw a light from heaven, above the light of the Sun, shining round about […]. Act. •6. 1•. That body now fills the Third Heaven with glory. And shall at the day of Judgement fill all this visible world with glory. Its said of the New-Jerusalem, that it has no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it, for the glory of God does lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof. Rev. 21. 23. When the souls which are now in Heaven shall come down from thence with Jesus Christ, and be re-united to their bdyes, and continue in this lower world as long as the Day of Judgement shall last, then does