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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 6 › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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PROPOSITION I.
The Lord Jesus Christ will come again into this Visible world. Though He is gone into another World, into that Heaven which is to us unseen, Heb. 7.26 He is made higher then the Heavens. Higher than these aspectable heavens which our mortal Eyes are able to behold; nevertheless he will return from thence. The ⟨p. 117⟩Heavens must contain him, till the time of the Restitution of all things, and then will he come down from heaven. Therefore at the time when our Lord did ascend up into heaven, the Angel said to the Disciples, Acts 1.11 This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him go into •ea•en. And before that, the Lord Jesus Christ did assure his Disciples that he would come again: Joh. 14.3 I will come unto you again. The Scripture speaks of a Double Personal coming, or appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ in this Lower world: Psal. 96. ult. He comes, He comes. A Converted Jew observes from those words, that in as much as they are doubled, He comes, He comes; that it was to intimate, that there shall be a Double coming or appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ: Heb. 9.28 He shall Appear the Second time. He has Appeared Once in the world already, but he shall Appear a Second time. When Christ did First Appear, it was to one Nation only, to the Jewish Nation only. Joh, 1.11 He came to his own, and his own received him not. But few of them that saw him when he was in the world, knew who he was. They were little aware that he was the Eternal Son of God whom their Eyes beheld. Hence in ver. 10. He was in the world, and the world knew him not. But at his Second Coming, not only the Jewish Nation, but all Nations