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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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1. Think often upon Christ and his Glory. The more a man thinks of it, the more will he be affected with it. Occasional thoughts of this should very often come into our hearts. If a Christian have a• any time lived many hours in a day and had no thoughts in his heart, concerning Christ and His Glory, he has cause to be humbled. But besides that, It is good ⟨p. 211⟩and exceeding profitable to set time apart, solemnly to meditate on the glory of Christ. A Christian shall […] by experience that such meditations will wonderfully take his heart off from things here below. What is all the world, when a man by Faith looketh upon the Glory of Christ, in comparison of whom Ten Thousand worlds are all as nothing. What are Riches? What are Honours? What are Friends? What are Relations? One View of the Glory of Christ drowns them all, and makes them to vanish into nothing.
1. Think often upon Christ and his Glory. The more a man thinks of it, the more will he be affected with it. Occasional thoughts of this should very often come into our hearts. If a Christian have a• any time lived many hours in a day and had no thoughts in his heart, concerning Christ and His Glory, he has cause to be humbled. But besides that, It is good ⟨p. 211⟩and exceeding profitable to set time apart, solemnly to meditate on the glory of Christ. A Christian shall 〈…〉 by experience that such meditations will wonderfully take his heart off from things here below. What is all the world, when a man by Faith looketh upon the Glory of Christ, in comparison of whom Ten Thousand worlds are all as nothing. What are Riches? What are Honours? What are Friends? What are Relations? One View of the Glory of Christ drowns them all, and makes them to vanish into nothing.
And such Meditations tend to make the heart more Holy. Beholding the glory of the Lord we are changed into the same image, from Glory to Glory