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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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Again, Christ is called the Word of God. Rev. 19. 13. 1. Joh. 5. 7. Now there is not only a sensible word which is pronounced, but intelligible word which is brought forth in ⟨p. 31⟩the understanding. Words are the Birth of the Understanding: so the Son of God is begotten by the Infinite Understanding of the Father.
Propos. 5. Though God the Father and the Son are personally distinct, they are essentially One. Therefore the Son is called the express Image of his Person, Heb. 1. 3. If a man see an Angel, he may behold the Image of God, His Wisdom, Goodness, Power &c. but not the Express Image of His Person. But he that seeth the Son of God, seeth the Person of the Father in His Son: yea, the Character (as the Greek hath it) of his Person. A son is sometimes very like his father, the Picture of his Father, and so the Image of his person: but never any Son so like the father, as the Son of God is like His Father. There is an essential Likeness of God in Christ. Phil 2. 6. Who being in the Form of God. The Father and the Son are personally two, Joh. 8. 16. I (saith Christ) am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. and in verse 18. I am one that bear witness of my self, and the Father that sent me •eareth witness of me. where there is one sending, and another sent, there are two distinct Persons: And two Witnesses ⟨p. 32⟩are two Persons; so are God and Christ; yet are they essentially One. Joh. 10. 30. The Father and I are One. If they were not Essentially One, there would be more Gods than one, which is Heresy and Blasphemy to imagine.