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A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…
A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend Mr. John Baily [i.e., Bailey], comprised and expressed in a sermon, on the day of his funeral. Thursday. 16.d. 10.m. 1697. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Two line epigram in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. A CHRISTIAN, is one who Acknowledges the matchless JESUS, to be the Priest, the Prophet, and the King, Appointed by God, for the Everlasting Acknowledgements of all His People. The Name of MESSIAH, which is given to our Lord Redeemer, it may be Seven Times in the Old-Testament, is the same with CHRIST, which is in the New-Testament given perhaps, above Two Hundred and Four-score Times unto Him. The Name signifies, The Anointed. Now there were Three Offices of much Influence, in the Old Church of God; ⟨p. 74⟩that of a Priest, that of a Prophet, and that of a King; and it was usual for them, who sustained these Offices, to be Anointed thereunto. These Offices, and the Anointings wherewith persons were set apart for these Offices, were ordered by the God of Heaven to be Typical of our Sacred JESUS. His being, The Anointed, is His being both Commissioned and Qualified, for all the Offices of our Lord-Redeemer. And now, what is a CHRISTIAN, but a Believer on a CHRIST? One who Believes in the Blessed JESUS, as Gloriously Executing all the Offices of a Mediator.
III. A CHRISTIAN, is one who Acknowledges the matchless JESUS, to be the Priest, the Prophet, and the King, Appointed by God, for the Everlasting Acknowledgments of all His People. The Name of MESSIAH, which is given to our Lord Redeemer, it may be Seven Times in the Old-Testament, is the same with CHRIST, which is in the New-Testament given perhaps, above Two Hundred and Four-score Times unto Him. The Name signifies, The Anointed. Now there were Three Offices of much Influence, in the Old Church of God; ⟨p. 74⟩that of a Priest, that of a Prophet, and that of a King; and it was usual for them, who sustained these Offices, to be Anointed thereunto. These Offices, and the Anointings wherewith persons were set apart for these Offices, were ordered by the God of Heaven to be Typical of our Sacred JESUS. His being, The Anointed, is His being both Commissioned and Qualified, for all the Offices of our Lord-Redeemer. And now, what is a CHRISTIAN, but a Believer on a CHRIST? One who Believes in the Blessed JESUS, as Gloriously Executing all the Offices of a Mediator.