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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. 4. God and Christ do exactly observe the terms of this covenant. Yea (to speak after the manner of men, and with humility and Reverence) they hold each other to the agreement which has been between them: the Father holds Christ to the Terms of the covenant, He has bated him nothing of what he engaged to perform, Rom, 8. 32. God spared not his own Son. Nor did Christ ever desire to have any abatement thereof, which would be derogatory from the glory of God. Joh. 12. 27. Christ doth also hold the Father to what He hath promised, and therefore we do find him professing to the Father that he does expect that he should be as good as his word, Joh. 17. 4. 5. Father, I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do, and now O Father, glorify thou me with tine own self, with the glory which I had […] thee before the world was. Q. D. I have […] the work of a Redeemer, and now I […] the wages of a Redeemer, according to […] Covenant which hath from Eternity been between us. Yea, Christ holds the Father unto what he had promised not only […] himself, but also with respect ⟨p. 15⟩respect unto all that shall believe on him, as in ver. 24. of that Chapt. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory. The Father hath promised that it should be so, and now Christ doth will and demand it should be made good
Propos. 4. God and Christ do exactly observe the terms of this covenant. Yea (to speak after the manner of men, and with humility and Reverence) they hold each other to the agreement which has been between them: the Father holds Christ to the Terms of the covenant, He has bated him nothing of what he engaged to perform, Rom, 8. 32. God spared not his own Son. Nor did Christ ever desire to have any abatement thereof, which would be derogatory from the glory of God. Joh. 12. 27. Christ doth also hold the Father to what He hath promised, and therefore we do find him professing to the Father that he does expect that he should be as good as his word, Joh. 17. 4. 5. Father, I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to doe, and now O Father, glorifie thou me with tine own self, with the glory which I had thee before the world was. Q. D. I have the work of a Redeemer, and now I the wages of a Redeemer, according to Covenant which hath from Eternity been between us. Yea, Christ holds the Father unto what he had promised not only himself, but also with respect