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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. 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. Col. 1. 15. Not an accidental but essential Image. • as the son does bear the Image and Nature of his father. Divines are wont thus to express it, God may be considered as understanding and knowing Himself, That is God the Father, and as understood and known by Himself, That is God the Son. And the Scripture doth set forth the Generation of the Son of God by such expressions as show that it is spiritual and intellectual. e. g. He is called the Wisdom of God. 1. Cor. 1. 24. Now Wisdom is of the Understanding.
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. Col. 1. 15. Not an accidental but essential Image. • as the son does bear the Image and Nature of his father. Divines are wont thus to express it, God may be considered as understanding and knowing Himself, That is God the Father, and as understood and known by Himself, That is God the Son. And the Scripture doth set forth the Generation of the Son of God by such expressions as shew that it is spiritual and intellectual. e. g. He is called the Wisdom of God. 1. Cor. 1. 24. Now Wisdome is of the Understanding.