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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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And He will do such things as Declare him to be the great God. For he will raise the Dead from their graves, and none but the great God can do that: Acts 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should Raise the Dead? Were there not a God of infinite Power, it were impossible as to those Bodies that have been devoured by Fishes in the Sea, and by wild Beasts upon the Land, which has been the Fate of many a true Believer. It was a common thing in the days of the Roman Pagan Emperors, to throw Christians to the wild Beasts to Devour them. Now that those Bodies that have been Devoured by Beasts should be restored to Life, how incredible may it seem to carnal Reason? The Pagan Persecutors, would burn the bodies of Christians ⟨p. 60⟩many times, and throw the Ashes into the Rivers on purpose to confute their fancy, that their bodies would arise again. Who but an infinite God, can make those very bodies to come together and live again? But Christ can do it, and will do this very thing. Joh. 6.14 He that Believes (saith Christ) I will raise him up at the Last Day. When Lazarus Died, and had been Dead and Buried four Days, Christ stood over his grave, Joh. 11 43 and said, Lazarus come forth; and he that was Dead did come forth at the word of Christ. So at the great Day (which Lord let it com• quickly!) Christ will stand over the Earth and say, Ye Dead come forth out of your graves And all the Dead shall come forth, every one in his own order· Therefore, John 5.25 28 says Christ▪ The hour shall come when the Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God, and they that hear it shall Live; and all that are in their graves shall come forth. He then is the great God, that can command all the Dead to come to Life again. That is the Fourth Demonstration of the Truth before us.
And He will do such things as Declare him to be the great God. For he will raise the Dead from their graves, and none but the great God can do that: