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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. 6. The Generation of the Son of God is a wonderful and incomprehensible Mystery. That Particular insisted on in the former Proposition, manifests the Truth of this. That two Persons should be essentially One! That more Persons than one should be in the same individual Nature! Among created Beings it is not so, nor can it be; They that differ personally have not the same individual Being, But God the Father and the Son have the same indivisible Essence. A Father and a Son have the same generical Essence, but not the same numerical Essence, but God the Father and the Son have so. And how wonderful is it to consider, that there should be a Father no older than his own Son, and an own Son no younger than his own Father! And how wonderful is it, that the same Person should be both God and Man! So is Christ. In that Vision to which my Text hath Reference, He is called the Son of man. Rev. 1. 13, 14. ⟨p. 33⟩and here the Son of GOD, because he is both God and Man in one person. That there should be more Natures than one in the same individual person, is wonderful.
Propos. 6. The Generation of the Son of God is a wonderful and incomprehensible Mystery. That Particular insisted on in the former Proposition, manifests the Truth of this. That two Persons should be essentially One! That more Persons than one should be in the same individual Nature! Among created Beings it is not so, nor can it be; They that differ personally have not the same individual Being, But God the Father and the Son have the same indivisible Essence. A Father and a Son have the same generical Essence, but not the same numerical Essence, but God the Father and the Son have so. And how wonderful is it to consider, that there should be a Father no older than his own Son, and an own Son no younger than his own Father! And how wonderful is it, that the same Person should be both God and Man! So is Christ. In that Vision to which my Text hath Referrence, He is called the Son of man. Rev. 1. 13, 14. ⟨p. 33⟩and here the Son of GOD, because he is both God and Man in one person. That there should be more Natures than one in the same individual person, is wonderful.