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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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The Humane nature of Christ, is, of all created Objects the most ex… › USE.
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Consider 1. It is not possible for any of us to set our hearts upon a more glorious Object than Christ is. The most glorious Persons and Things that ever have been in the world, were only Types of him, and did but •hew a faint Resemblance of his Glory. Was not Joseph a Glorious Person when he said to his Brethren, you shall tell my father of all my glory, Gen. 45. 13. He was but a Type of Christ. When the High-Priest appeared with glorious holy Garments upon him, how glorious was he! yet but a type of Christ. Behold King Solomon upon his Throne, the most excellent person ⟨p. 207⟩in the whole world, only a Type of Christ. As the Lord speaks concerning the Lilly, Mat. 6. 29. Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. So I say, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like this Man: He was not arrayed with MAJESTY and bedecked with GLORY as the Man Christ Jesus is. His humane nature is now so glorious as that […] mortal eye is able to look upon it. The Apostle Joh, whilst Christ was in his state of Humiliation lay in His Bosom, being admitted into the greatest Fam••iarityes o• Love; yet this Apostle when he had a miraculous, sight of Christ in Glory, he saith, when I saw Him, I fell down at his feet as dead. Rev. 1. 17. If Christ as he is now in Glory, should appear to any of us, we should fall down dead before him. But what then is the Glory of Christ considered as GOD! So he is the Lord of Glory. What a glorious Person is Jesus Christ, in whom created glory in the highest degree, and increated GLORY meet together! All the Angels in heaven are amazed at His Glory. The Seraphims when they behold his Glory cover their Faces as acknowledging their unworthiness and their inability to look upon that Glory: and one cried unto another and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts, the ⟨p. 208⟩whole earth is full of his Glory. Isai. 6. 2, 3