N00830:138
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 5
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.
Anew. 1. He is a Great Saviour. The Great God, and our Saviour. That Saviour who is ⟨p. 93⟩the great God, and not a mere man, is a great Saviour. He is called a great One, a Saviour, and a Great One. Isa. 19.20 It is there Prophesied concerning the Egyptians, that God would send them a Saviour, and a Great One. We do not read neither in the Scripture, nor in other Writings, that the Egyptians had a Temporal saviour sent to them. No, but that Text is to be interpreted of Christ, who is a Saviour of Egyptians; that is to say, not only of Jews, but of Gentiles. God has laid help an One that is Mighty. Psal. 89.19 Christ is that Mighty one of Jacob. He is able to accomplish that work of Salvation, which has been undertaken by him▪ Those Temporal Saviours which are mentioned in Scripture, were only Types and Shadows of Him. Moses was so, he was a Temporal Saviour; yet but a shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ. Deut. 18 5 He said, the Lord shall raise up a Prophet like to me. So a Saviour like to him. A shadow has some resemblance of the body whose shadow it is. So Moses had some resemblance of Christ. Moses did save the Children of Israel from Pharaoh, and the Egyptians: But Christ has saved the Israel of God, from Satan ▪ and from all the powers of Darkness. Joshua was a saviour, as his Name signifies; Joshua and Jesus are the same Name; only Joshua is the Hebrew, and Jesus the Greek Name; and it signifies ⟨p. 94⟩a Saviour: (as was formerly showed.) The children of Israel were brought to the possession of the Land of Canaan, not by Moses but by Joshua: To signify this Truth of the Gospel, that we possess Heaven, not by the Law, but by Christ. Not by our works, or by the Deeds of the Law, but by Faith in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ. The Judges in Israel of Old, were Saviours, and some of them great ones: Neh. 9.27 Thou gavest them Saviours, according to the greatness of thy mercy. Saviours▪ Temporal Saviours. Now, these were but Types and Shadows of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in a special manner Sampson was so. Jacob in his Blessing of the Tribe of Dan,