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The folly of sinning, opened & applied, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation…The folly of sinning, opened & applyed, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation…
The folly of sinning, opened & applied, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation of one that was executed at Boston in New-England, on November 17th. 1698. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston in N.E. ; [Two lines from Romans]The folly of sinning, opened & applyed, in two sermons, occasioned by the condemnation of one that was executed at Boston in New-England, on November 17th. 1698. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston in N.E. ; [Two lines from Romans]
Boston: printed by B Green for Michael Perry over against the Town House, 1699
THE FOLLY OF Sinning. › Sermon 1 › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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3. The Sins of the E•ect were the procuring cause of all the bitter Sufferings which Jesus Christ the Son of God Endured. Christ had no Sin of his own to suffer for. Dan. 9.26. Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; not for any thing that He had done amiss. Inasmuch as the Man Christ Jesus is the Son of God, or one in person with the Eternal Son of God, it was impossible that He should Sin: In Him dwells the fullness of the God-head bodily, and therefore He neither did nor could Sin. But the Sins of His People ⟨p. 21⟩imputed to him. 2 Cor. 5.21. God ha's made him to be Sin for us who knew no Sin, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. God ha's imputed the guilt of the Sins of his Elect unto his Son Jesus Christ, who out of Love to his Fathers Glory and the Salvation of his People, was willing that it should be so: He was therefore made a Sin Offering, that so God might deal with us as if we were Sinless and Righteous. Because Christ sustained the person of Gods Elect, the punishment which was due to them fell upon him Isa. 53.5, 6. He was wounded for our Transgression, he was bruised for our Iniquities. The Lord ha's said on him the iniquity of us all; that is the punishment due to us all ha's been laid upon Him. This was taught by the Sacrifices under the Law. The Creature offered as a Sacrifice must be killed, by which the off•rer confessed that he deserved to die for his Sins, only the Creature was to die for him The Gospel of which, was, That Christ, dying in our stead ha's Saved us from Eternal Death. G•l 3 13. Christ has redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us The Curse of the Law is […] ••pressibly dreadful thing; nevertheless, ⟨p. 22⟩Christ the Son of God became Subject to it, because of our Sins, that he might deliver us from the Curse. What terrible things did Christ suffer for our sakes? Never man did, nor could suffer so much as He the blessed Son of God endured on our account.