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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. Christ is the Son of God by Divine Ineffable Generation. That Divine Generation which the Son-ship of Christ doth intimate, is ineffable. As it is said in another respect, Who can declare his Generation? Isa. 53. 8. So as to this Generation, who can declare it? Yet must we know and believe that the Son is begotten of the Father. The Scripture (which is the ground of Faith in all divine Mysteries) is clear for this Joh 3. 17. If Christ be the Son of God after an higher manner than the Angels, He is so in respect of divine Generation; But He is the Son of God after an higher manner than the Angels. Heb. 15. Unto which ⟨p. 25⟩of the Angels said He at any time, Thou art my son? Christ is so the Son of God as no one else is, and therefore is said not only to be begotten, but the only begotten Son of God. Joh. 1. 14. We beheld His Glory, as the Glory of the only begotten of the Further. There are sons of GOD in Respect of Creation: So Adam was the Son of God, Luc. 3. ult. There are sons of God in respect of Adoption; so all Believers are the sons of God. Joh. 1. 12. Gal. 4. 5. There are sons of God in Respect of Imitation and Similitude; so the holy Angels are styled sons of Elohim, Psal. 89. 6. Job. 38. 7. And Godly men are styled His sons, because they bear His Image, and are in some measure like Him, as Children are like their Father. Mat. 5. 45. Luc. 6. 35. Eph. 5. 1. As Wicked men are called the Devil's children on the same account of Likeness and Imitation,