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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. 3. Jesus Christ the Son of God has accepted of this undertaking according to the terms propounded by the Father. Hence it is that God is ••iled the God of Jesus Christ; and the Lord of Christ, Psal. 16. 2. and 45. 7. Mic. 5. 4. Joh. 20. 17. Eph. 1. 17. Rev. 3. 12. Viz. in respect of the Covenant. As the Lord is said to be the God of Believers in respect of the Covenant of Grace; so he is said to be the God of Christ in respect of the Covenant of Redemption. On this same account also, ⟨p. 12⟩God is said to be greater than Christ, Jo•. 10. 28. and 14. 28. viz. In that by voluntary Dispensation, Christ hath ••ken upon Him the work and Office of a […], and is become subject to the Fat••• therein; and thence also is said to be His •••vant, Isai. 52. 13. Yea, His willing and obedient servant, Chapt. 50. 5. The Lord God hath opened mine ear and I was not ••bellio•s, neither turned away my back. And if we call to mind the Terms of the Covenant of Redemption but now hinted at, we shall see the Truth of this. One Article of it was, that the Son of God should become incarnate; hence Christ in respect of his Incarnation, is said to be s•nt of God. Rom. 8. 3. Now this the Son of God did readily comply with,