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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 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.
The Text before us says, He is Our Saviour.
The Text before us sayes, He is Our Saviour.
Answ. 1. He is a Saviour to us Men· In this respect, God has showed more love and kindness to Fallen Man, than to Fallen Angels. Tit. 3.4 The Divine Philanthropy, the Love & Kindness of God our Saviour towards man appears, in that Christ did not assume to himself the Nature of Angels. He did not undertake to be their saviour. Hence the Angel said to the ⟨p. 103⟩Shepherd, Luk. 2.11 I bring you Glad Tidings, that unto you is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord ▪ Unto you Men, not unto us Angels. As for the Elect Angels, they never sinned, and therefore did not stand in need o• a saviour; and as for the Fallen Angels, God did not appoint a saviour for them. When they sinned, they were not spared, but were cast down to Hell, and Reserved in Everlasting Chains of Darkness, to the Judgment of the Great Day. When the Son of God did come into the world, it was not for the salvation of Fallen Angels, but for their destruction and confusion. 1 Joh 3.8 For this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil. All that the Devil had been doing for Four Thousand Years together, from the beginning of the world until the coming of Christ into the world, Jesus Christ Destroyed it all in one Day. He has destroyed the Devil and his works too: Heb. 2.14 He through Death has destroyed the Devil. And this was but according to the Ancient Prophesy and Promise, the first that was made to Fallen man, Gen, 3.15 That the Seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpents head. Implying, that the Son of God •hould be born of a Woman, and should bruise the Serpents head, by being Himself bruised on the Cross, and that the Head of the Serpent, the Devil that is, should be broken to pieces