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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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Propos. 2. GOD hath made glorious Promises to Jesus Christ, on condition of His undertaking the work of a Redeemer. e. g. God has promised that He should be every way fitted and qualified for that Undertaking, and therefore that an humane nature should be created for Him, that so He might be in a Capacity for the management of that Undertaking, Heb. 10. 4. A Body hast Thou prepared Me, O God. And that Gifts and Graces of the holy Spirit should be poured upon Him, according to that great and unparalleled Undertaking. He was anointed with the oil of the Spirit above his fellows, Psal. 45. 7. Yea, He received the Spirit not by measure, Joh. 3. 34. i. e. above •••asure; there are no known Limits set to that Portion of the Spirit which Christ as Man received. It is an higher Expression than can be used concerning any man or Angel, or Creature, but only is it spoken concerning Christ (who is more than a man or Creature. Also, God promised to assist Him in his work, Isai. 42. 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold, ⟨p. 9⟩and ver. 4th He shall not be discouraged, till he hath set Judgment in the earth. This is that which encouraged Christ in His work notwithstanding the Difficulties and Sufferings, which he was on the account thereof exop•ed unto, Isai. 50. 7. 9. And God promised him blessed Success in his undertaking, even, that the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in his hands, as the Context expre••eth. Yea, Success in respect of those He undertook for, That his Elect should be converted, and therefore he shall see his seed. Yea, not only the Elect among the Jews, but the Gentiles also. Therefore look into the 49th Chapter of Isaiah, where this Covenant of Redemption which we are now discoursing of, is likewise intimated: In the two first verses Christ speaketh of his Call to the work of a Redeemer; in the third verse there is a promise that the elect Jews should be converted to Christ. Nay but saith Christ (v. 4.) I must have more than that, My blod is of greater value than to be given for them only.