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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.
8. Jesus Christ is the only and alone Saviour of Men. As there is no God besides Christ; the Father and the Son are the same God, so there is no Saviour besides him, Isa. 43.11. I, even I am the Lord, and beside me there is ⟨p. 21⟩no Saviour. God has sent no other Saviour for Men but his Son Jesus Christ. Acts 4.12. There is none other Name under Heaven, given among Men, whereby we must be saved. They that will not own him shall Perish Eternally. Christ therefore said to the Jews, If you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins, Joh. 8.24. He is not only a Saviour, but the Saviour, importing that he only is so. Phil. 3.20. Our Conversation is in Heaven from whence we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. And as Christ, and no one else is the Saviour of the World, there is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus, so he is such an one by himself alone, without the assistance of any Creature. Temporal Saviours have had many to assist them, or they could have done nothing. But Christ had no Man to assist him in the mighty Work of our Redemption. Isa. 9.16. He saw that there was no man, therefore His own arm brought Salvation to Him. In making satisfaction ⟨p. 22⟩for the sins of his People, none joined with him. The high Priest went alone into the Sanctuary, not without Blood, Heb. 9.7. By that signifying, that Christ alone by his Blood, has made Atonement for the sins of his People. No one else did in the least contribute towards that Salvation. Nor did any Man help him in conquering the Enemies of our Salvation. He says in the Context before us, Isa. 63.3. I have trodden the wine Press alone, and of the People there was none with me, I looked, and there was none to help. Hence it is said of Christ, that he saves to the uttermost,