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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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As now, Eternity is an Incommunicable Property of the great God. Deut. 33.27 The Eternal God shall be thy Refuge. He alone is the Eternal God. That is Eternal, which has ⟨p. 54⟩neither beginning nor ending. There are some Creatures which shall never Die; Angels and the Souls of men are Immortal. But there is no Creature which has not had a beginning. But God is from Everlasting: Psal. 90.2 From Everlasting to Everlasting, thou art God. This must be said, and it is necessary unto Salvation that we should believe this, concerning Christ. We may not think that He was not, until he was born of the Virgin Mary. He was God in Heaven before he was Man on Earth. Therefore, Joh. 6.62 What do you say, (says Christ) if you shall see the Son of Man ascend up where He was before? Christ was before in that Heaven whether he did ascend, even before ever he was seen among men in this world. Abraham lived about two thousand Years before Christ was born, and yet Christ was before Abraham: Joh. 8.53 Before Abraham was, I am, says Christ. He was then before he came into the world: when the world began Christ was. Time began with the world: but in Joh. 1.1 it is said, In the Beginning was the Word, that is Christ, and the Word was with God. When the world began Christ was with God, yea before the world began: Joh. 17 5 The Glory which I had with thee before the world began. And therefore from all Eternity: Mic. 5.2 Whose goings forth hath been of Old, from Everlasting. ⟨p. 55⟩Christ is from Everlasting, therefore He is the great God.
As now, Eternity is an Incommunicable Property of the great God.