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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 4
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And hence, he is said to be a Prophet; and by way of Eminency That Prophet: In Joh. 6.14 He is That Prophet that should come into the world. Sinners have Blind Minds, Darkened Understandings: they are out of the way unto salvation, and cannot of themselves find the way. But therefore the Prophetical Office of Christ is a Remedy against that Misery. For Christ as a Prophet has instructed us in the way unto Salvation; and has declared unto us all that is needful for us to know that we may be saved. The Woman of Samaria, could say, Joh. 4.25 When the Messiah comes He shall tell us all things. Christ as the Prophet of His Church, has told us all things, that are necessary to be known. No man needs to know any more, in order to his obtaining Eternal Life, then what Christ as a Prophet has Revealed. The Scriptures are able to make wise unto Salvation. Now Christ as the Great Prophet of His Church, ⟨p. 79⟩has given the Scripture to His People. Again, Christ is said to be a Priest: Heb, 3·1 He is the High Priest of our profession. Aaron was the high Priest of the Jewish Profession: Christ is the high Priest of our Christian Profession. And he has therefore made Atonement for the sins of His People. Sin has made a breach between God and Man. No doubt when the Devil had caused man to sin, he hoped he had Ruined him for […] and […] question but the holy Angels stood amazed, and looked on man as a lost Creature, until they knew that the Son of God interposed and undertook to be a Priest for them, and to make Atonement for them by being Bruised, that so their sins might be satisfied for. By Him we receive the Atonement, and He is a Propitiation for our sins. It belonged to the Priest also to offer Incense, and to intercede for the People. So has Christ done, and in that way does he perfect our Salvation. Heb 7.25 He is able to Save unto the Uttermost, since he ever Lives to make Intercession. Christ has also a Kingly-Office belonging to Him. The Jews when they write of the Messiah, are wont to call him, the King Messiah. So does the Scripture say of Him that he is a King. Joh. 1.49 Thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. The Son of God is the King and Ruler of the Universe, but of Israel of his ⟨p. 80⟩