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Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…
Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1715
JESUS CHRIST IS A Mighty Saviour.JESƲS CHRIST IS A Mighty Saviour.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Jesus Christ is the Mighty God. And therefore He is a Mighty Saviour. Very often in the Scripture, He is said to be God; and we may not think that he is so in respect of His Office or Authority only, as Princes are said to be Gods, but in respect of Nature, He is called The Mighty God, Isai. 9.6. Unto us a Child is Born, a Son is given, His Name shall be called, that is he shall be, The Mighty God. And he is said to be The Great God. Tit. 2.13. The glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. He then is not only a Mighty but an Almighty Saviour. We all need such Salvations as no Creature, yea, as all the Creatures in the World cannot help us unto. But Christ has a Mighty Arm able to Save us, Isai. 59.1. Behold, the Lords Hand is not shortened that it cannot save Christ is that God which made the World. All things were made by Him, and ⟨p. 7⟩without Him was not any thing made that was made. •e that made the World is able to save the World.
3. If we […] Saviours, we shall […] drably Greater and Might […] any of •m all. God raised up Sa•s for His People Israel Neh 9 • Thou gavest them Saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their Enemies These were Types and Shadows of Christ, the great Saviour which was to come into the World M•ses was an Instrumental Saviour to the Children of Israel. By that Prophet God brought Israel out of Egypt, and by that Prophet he preserved them. In that he was a Figure of Christ. It was Prophesied of the M•sah that he should be like unto Moses […]. 17.15. The Hebrew Doctors […] well, That Christ shall be like unto Moses only greater than he, w was […] greatest Prophet that ever was in the Wld, un Christ came […] speaks the Apostle,