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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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PROPOSITION II.
That this Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ will be a Glorious Appearing. The Greek word [Greek or Hebrew] used in the Text, signifies an Illustr• ous Glorious Appearing. Thus, Mat. 24.30 He shall come with Powe•, and Great Glory. And therefore the day of his Appearing, is called a Great Day: Jude 6. and the Terrible Day ⟨p. 120⟩of the Lord. Acts 2.20 Christs First Appearing was in Meanness: His Second Appearing shall be with great Glory; with the Greatest and most Glorious Majesty. His first Appearing was in the form of a Servant, as if he was but a mean inconsiderable person. Phil. 2.6, 7· He made himself of no Reputation, and took upon him the form of a Servant. But at his Second Coming he will Appear like Himself, in the form of the Son of God; yea in the form of the Great God. As when the three Princes were cast into the Furnace; Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 3 25) was astonished; says he, there were Three men cast into the Furnace, and I see Four men, and the form of the Fourth is like the Son of God. So when Jesus Christ Appears again, the world shall be astonished, for he will Appear in the form of the Son of God. His Humane Nature will then Appear with such Divine Majesty, as will Declare him to be what he is. It will shine with a greater Glory, than the Sun in the Firmament. And therefore Paul when travelling to Damascus, and Christ Appeared to him in the way, Acts 26.13 At Mid-day saw a Light above the Brightness of the Sun. The Humane Nature of Christ has a Glory attending it, above the Brightness of the Sun at Noon. We read,