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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 3
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therefore they could not believe that he was truly God, that he had the Nature of God in him, but they Blasphemously thought that Christ was guilty of Blasphemy, because he did Declare himself to be God. For which cause they cast Stones at him. For which of my good Works said Christ, do you Stone me; Not for any good Works, (say they) Joh. 10.33 but for Blasphemy because thou being Man makest thy self God. But their Fore-Fathers, the holy Patriarchs of Old, did believe and did take comfort in the Faith of it, that God would Assume the Nature of man. Thus David believed, Psal. 110.1 The Lord said to my Lord. The Messiah was to be Davids Son, yet he calls him his Lord. So then, he did believe that his Lord would become a Man, that the great God would appear in Humane Nature, and that He should be of his Family too. And long before David, Job had the same Spirit of Faith, ⟨p. 51⟩he believed that God would appear in the Nature of man. Says Job 19.26 In my Flesh I shall see God. He did then believe that God would become a Man; for the Divine Nature cannot be seen with bodily Eyes. God is the Invisible God. Job knew that with his bodily Eyes he should at the latter day see God, and therefore that God would assume the Nature of Man, in which he would become Visible to men. That Christ has the Nature of God in Him, is Evident;
therefore they could not believe that he was truly God, that he had the Nature of God in him, but they Blasphemously thought that Christ was guilty of Blasphemy, because he did Declare himself to be God. For which cause they cast Stones at him. For which of my good Works said Christ, do you Stone me; Not for any good Works, (say they) Joh. 10.33 but for Blasphemy because thou being Man makest thy self God. But their Fore-Fathers, the holy Patriarks of Old, did believe and did take comfort in the Faith of it, that God would Assume the Nature of man. Thus David believed, Psal. 110.1 The Lord said to my Lord. The Messiah was to be Davids Son, yet he calls him his Lord. So then, he did believe that his Lord would become a Man, that the great God would appear in Humane Nature, and that He should be of his Family too. And long before David, Iob had the same Spirit of Faith,