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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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USE. Let it be a word of CONSOLATION to those that are concerned in this Covenant.
1. It is a comfortable Consideration to think on the Ancient Love of God. If thou art concerned in this Covenant, God loved thee before ever thou lovedst Him; yea, before ever thou hadst any Being; thy Name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, even from all Eternity. Therefore David faith, Thy loving Kindness is ever of old, Psal. 6. 25. God hath had Designs of Grace towards thee, from Everlasting.
1. It is a comfortable Consideration to think on the Ancient Love of God. If thou art concern'd in this Covenant, God loved thee before ever thou loved•t Him; yea, before ever thou had•t any Being; thy Name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world, even from all Eternity. Therefore David faith, Thy loving Kindness is ever of old, Psal. 6. 25. God hath had Designs of Grace towards thee, from Everlasting.
2. If thou art concerned in this Covenant GOD who has an absolute Dominion over his Creatures, has given thee to Jesus Christ, Joh. •7. 6. 10. Thine they are and thou gavest the• one, and all mine are thine, and thine are mine▪ God hath given thee to Christ to redeem and save thee: There is such a poor Creature I give him to thee, do thou take him, save him, bless him forever, saith the Lord.