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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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3. CHRIST has purchased what He Intercedes for. Purchased it with the Price of His own Blood, Heb. 9. 12. He is gone not without blood into the holy Place, He is gone to Heaven with the Merit of His blood, and pleads that before God continually: He has deserved what He asks for. The Altar of Incense had blood Sprinkled upon it, this signifying that Jesus Christ Intercedes by virtue of His blood. The high Priest after He offered Sacrifice once in a Year, did enter into the holiest of all, and there Sprinkled blood ⟨p. 116⟩on the mercy seat, teaching us that God is become Merciful to us through Jesus Christ, and that Christ Intercedes on the account of what His blood has Merited; that He desires nothing at the hand of Mercy but what He has Purchased at the hand of Justice. We may then be sure what Christ Intercedes for in behalf of His Elect, shall be graciously answered. For the blood of Christ is Infinitely Meritorious, because it is the blood of God: Not the blood of a mere Man, but of One who is God as well as Man. So the Scripture expressly declares to us, Acts 20. 28. The Church of God which he has purchased with his own blood. God with His own blood, that is Christ who is God. He is also Man, so was capable of shedding blood, as God Man He has Merited what He has shed His blood for: the blood of Christ has a powerful Voice. We are come to the blood of sprinkling, which speaks better things than the blood of Abel. Abel, his blood cried for Vengeance, but the blood of Christ cries for Mercy on the behalf of Believers, of those, which this blood by the hand of faith is sprinkled on, it cries and says, Let this Sinner be ⟨p. 117⟩forgiven, notwithstanding all his Sins he has been guilty of, let him be saved Eternally; then it must needs be so. We […] then what Christ Intercedes for shall […] granted. We see the Doctrine cleared […] opened in the particulars mentioned.
3. CHRIST has purchased what He Intercedes for. Purchas'd it with the Price of His own Blood, Heb. 9. 12. He is gone not without blood into the holy Place, He is gone to Heaven with the Merit of His blood, and pleads that before God continually: He has deserved what He asks for. The Altar of Incense had blood Sprinkled upon it, this signifying that Jesus Christ Intercedes by vertue of His blood. The high Priest after He offered Sacrifice once in a Year, did enter into the holiest of all, and there Sprinkled blood