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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 1
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6.54 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood has Eternal Life, and I will ⟨p. 14⟩Raise him up at the last day. That very Body, that did Sacramentally eat the Flesh of Christ, and that did drink of the Blood of Christ, He will Raise it up at the Last Day. And this blessed truth, has ever been the Faith and Hope of Believers, even in all ages of the world. This was that Job did hope for and was assured of, Job 19.26 I know that my Redeemer Liveth, and that He shall stand on the Earth at the latter day, and though after my skin worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh I shall see God. It is as much as if he had said, I know that there will be a Glorious Appearing of the Great God my Saviour, and that though my Body be consumed in the rotting Grave, it shall be restored to Life in that Blessed Day.
6.54 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood has Eternal Life, and I will ⟨p. 14⟩Raise him up at the last day. That very Body, that did Sacramentally eat the Flesh of Christ, and that did drink of the Blood of Christ, He will Raise it up at the Last Day. And this blessed truth, has ever been the Faith and Hope of Believers, even in all ages of the world. This was that Iob did hope for and was assured of, Job 19.26 I know that my Redeemer Liveth, and that He shall stand on the Earth at the latter day, and though after my skin worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh I shall see God. It is as much as if he had said, I know that there will be a Glorious Appearing of the Great God my Saviour, and that though my Body be consumed in the rotting Grave, it shall be restored to Life in that Blessed Day.
3. Believers hope that at the Appearing of the Great God our Saviour Jesus Christ, their Bodies shall undergo a Blessed Change. Not only that they shall be restored to Life, but be Blessedly Changed from what they are. They are now subject to many infirmities, which will then be perfectly and forever removed from them Phil 3.21 He shall Change our vile Bodies. We look for a Saviour from Heaven that shall Change our vile Bodies: whatever it is makes our Bodies subject to vileness, to meanness, that shall be done away. There are Bodily infirmities which are the fruit of Sin, and some part