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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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Arg. 2. From the Miracles which happened at the Time of Christ's Passion. I do not mention the Sufferings of Christ to prove His Relation to God. His state of Humiliation was the great Objection which the Jews had against His being the SON of the Blessed. Hence Christ became ⟨p. 35⟩became a Rock of offence to them that would not believe that he was the Son of God except He came down from the Cross, Matth. 27. 42, 43. So the Heathen world; What! He be a God that was Crucified! they thought that incredible. But there were such Miracles attending the sufferings of Christ, as did plainly manifest that he was none other but the son of God. From the Sixth to the Ninth Hour of the day, there was Darkness all the Land over, This was no ordinary Eclipse of the Sun, for it was at the Full of the Moon, being at the Passover, whenas ordinary Solar Eclipses we know are at the New Moon Moreover, the Veil of the Temple was rent in twain, from the Top to the Bottom; and the Earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and Bodies of Saints which slept arose. These Solemn Providences were so convictive as that the Captain who commanded the Soldiers the day that Christ was crucified, cried out, Truly, this was the Son of GOD. Oh the Jews have killed the Son of God. Mat. 27. 45,—51, 52, 54,
Arg. 2. From the Miracles which hapned at the Time of Christ's Passion. I do not mention the Sufferings of Christ to prove His Relation to God. His state of Humiliation was the great Objection which the Jews had against His being the SON of the Blessed. Hence Christ became ⟨p. 35⟩became a Rock of offence to them that would not believe that he was the Son of God except He came down from the Cross, Matth. 27. 42, 43. So the Heathen world; What! He be a God that was Crucified! they thought that incredible. But there were such Miracles attending the sufferings of Christ, as did plainly manifest that he was none other but the son of God. From the Sixth to the Ninth Hour of the day, there was Darkness all the Land over, This was no ordinary Eclipse of the Sun, for it was at the Full of the Moon, being at the Passover, whenas ordinary Solar Eclipses we know are at the New Moon Moreover, the Vail of the Temple was rent in twain, from the Top to the Bottom; and the Earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and Bodies of Saints which slept arose. These Solemn Providences were so convictive as that the Captain who commanded the Souldiers the day that Christ was crucified, cryed out, Truly, this was the Son of GOD. Oh the Jews have killed the Son of God.