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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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We proceed in the 2nd place, To mention some Arguments Demonstrating, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Briefly; 1.
Arg. 1. We may argue from that Testimony which hath been given to the Sonship of Christ• Even Christ's greatest Enemies have been forced to confess this. The Devil once cried out, What have I to do with thee, Jesus thou Son of God most High! Luc. 8. 28. And we have upon Record in the Word of God, the Testimonies which those that knew Christ have given to this great Truth. John Baptist saith I saw and bear record, that this is the Son of GOD, Joh. 3. 34. Nathaniel also, (v. 49.) said to Him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of GOD• Peter in the name of all the Disciples, professed, We believe, and are sure that thou art Christ the Son of the Living God, Joh. 6. 69. And ⟨p. 34⟩an Arch-Angel from Heaven said to the Virgin Mary, that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God, Luc. 1. 35. Christ Himself bare witness to this Truth, concerning his own Sonship. Joh. 10. 36. Say ye of him whom the Father has sanctified & sent into the world, thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? And God from heaven has preached this Truth; At the Time when Christ was baptized, Lo, a voice from Heaven saying, this is my beloved Son, hear ye Him, Mat. 3. 17. Also at His Transfiguration, unto which the Apostle Peter has respect when he saith, We were eye-witnesses of His Majesty, for he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came from the excellent Glory (i. e. from God, whom the Hebrews are wont to call by the Name of Glory) this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased: and this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the holy Mount,