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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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4. Jesus Christ has purchased our Salvation, and therefore he is our Saviour. That is one way in which Captives are Redeemed, viz. when a Price is paid and their Liberty Purchased for them So it hath been here▪ We were all in miserable Servitude and Slavery, but Christ▪ hath laid down a Price, whereby he hath purchased our Freedom: 1 Cor. 7.23 Ye […] bought with a •rice, says the Apostle. With a Price, what was that Price? It must ne•ds be some great matter: For an Immortal Soul is more worth than all the world. Therefore must it be some great matter that shall Purchase the Redemption and Salvation of Souls. All Men and Creatures in Heaven and in Earth, were not able to lay down a Price sufficient, to Purchase the Redemption of a Soul: Psal. 49.8 The Redemption of their Soul is precious, and ceaseth forever. But Christ could do it, & has done it. He has laid down that which is a Price sufficient. He has given that for their Redemption, which is worth as much as all the Souls in the world are worth, and infinitely more. For in 1 Tim. 2.6 He gave Himself a Ransom for many. Himself is more worth than all the men in the world. ⟨p. 83⟩They said to David, 2 Sam. 1•.3 Thou art worth ten thousand of us. Christ is more worth than Ten Thousand worlds. And yet he has given Himself to Purchase the salvation of his People. He has given his own Life for it: Mat. 20.28 He ga•e h•s Life a Ransom for man. And who can say what that Life is worth. For whose Life is it? The Apostle John tells us, 1 Joh. 3.16