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Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when…
Five sermons on several subjects. I. A birth-day sermon, preached on the day when the author attained to the eightieth year of his age. II. A dying testimony to the sovereign grace of God in the salvation of his elect, containing three sermons. III. Believers encouraged to pray from the consideration of Christs interceding for them, and with them. / By Increase Mather, D.D ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Daniel Henchman, 1719
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2. It is evidently so, If we consider the Relation Christ does stand in towards God. Sometimes a faithful Servant has a great interest in his lord, and will be heard in what he requests. We read concerning the Centurion, Luke 7. 2. That he had a Servant sick who was dear to him. Never was any Servant so dear to his Master, as Christ is to God: Christ as Mediator is Gods Servant, and the best and dearest Servant that ever the God of Heaven had; the most Wise, the most Prudent Servant, that ever God had, Isai. 52. 13. Behold my Servant shall deal prudently. And He is a most Faithful Servant. It is said of Moses, he was faithful to him that appointed him: but Christ is more worthy than Moses. Therefore God did commit to Christ all His Elect. He trusted Him with all His Elect, and Christ did faithfully take care of them all. Joh. 17. 12. Of those thou hast given to me, I have lost none, saith Christ. The Elect of God that are given to Him, He will not lose any One of them. God has trusted Him with them, and He will be faithful. Christ is dear to God, not only as a Servant, but as a Son. We behold ⟨p. 115⟩his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the father, Joh. 1. 14. God has many adopted Sons, but One Own Son, Christ is His only begotten Son. There came a voice from Heaven and that more than once, when our Saviour submitted to Baptism, and when with His Disciples on the holy Mount, He was transfigured, that voice came from Heaven, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. God delights in Him more than in any One else, more than in all the Creatures in the World; all the Angels in Heaven are not so dear to God as Jesus Christ is.
3. CHRIST has purchased what He Intercedes for. Purchased it with the Price of His own Blood,