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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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The Son of God is styled, the Brightness of His Father's glory Heb. 1. 3. The sun & that Brightness, that Refulgency, or Beaming forth of Light which proceeds therefrom, are Coetaneous: so God the Father and the Son are Co-eternal• The Son is only in order of Nature and not in Time before the Beams issuing therefrom; so is God the Father only in order of Nature and not in Time before God the Son. Had it been possible for the Sun in the Firmament to be Eternal, the Beams and Brightness thereof would have been eternal too. Thus, inasmuch as God the Father is Eternal, the Son ⟨p. 30⟩of God, who is the Brightness of His Glory, is eternal also.
The Son of God is styled, the Brightness of His Father's glory Heb. 1. 3. The sun & that Brightness, that Refulgency, or Beaming forth of Light which proceeds therefrom, are Coetaneous: so God the Father and the Son are Co-eternal• The Son is only in order of Nature and not in Time before the Beames issuing therefrom; so is God the Father only in order of Nature and not in Time before God the Son. Had it been possible for the Sun in the Firmament to be Eternal, the Beames and Brightness thereof would have been eternal too. Thus, inasmuch as God the Father is Eternal, the Son ⟨p. 30⟩of God, who is the Brightness of His Glory, is eternal also.
Propos. 4. The Generation of the Son of God is a spiritual and an intellectual Generation. God is a Spirit, and therefore all carnal Imaginations about this Generation are to be abhorred. This Divine Generation concerning which we speak, is by the […] Understanding of God reflecting upon his own Beauty, & conceiving an Image of Himself. Hence Christ is called the Image of God.