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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.
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•s•ah 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 W•ld, un• Christ came […] speaks the Apostle, Heb. 3.3. […] Man […] ⟨p. 8⟩counted worthy of more glory than Moses. Moses did by Divine Appointment introduce a new Religion into the World, so did Christ, and in that respect was like unto Moses. No Man was ever admitted to such familiarity with God, as was Moses, but Christ much more. The Law was given by Moses, Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time, no not Moses himself so as Christ has, the only begotten Son which is in the Bosom of the Father He hath declared Him, Joh. 1.17, 18. Moses was a shadow of Christ. The shadow represents the Body whose shadow it is, so in Moses we see some Representation of Christ shadowed to us. He was a Deliverer, but not comparable to Christ. The Judges in Israel were Saviours, and on that account Types of Christ. In a special manner Sampson was so. Jacob in his dying Prophesy concerning the Tribe of Dan, breaks forth into this Expression, I have waited for thy Salvation, O Lord. Sampson was of that Tribe, he was a Type of Christ, ⟨p. 9⟩