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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39357	A letter to the Honourable Sir Robert Howard together with some animadversions upon a book entituled, Christianity not mysterious / by Edmund Elys ...	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1696 (1696)	Wing E678A; ESTC R18806	6,186	18

SON OF GOD is reveal'd not only as the Object of our Knowledge but also of our everlasting Admiration His Name shall be called WONDERFUL Isaiah 9.6 I shall endeavour to give the candid Reader a further Illustration of this most important Truth by making some Reflections upon some other Expressions of the blessed Apostle Rom. 16 25 26 27. Now to him that is of Power to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the Revelation of the MYSTERY which was kept secret since the World began but now is made manifest and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the Commandment of the everlasting God made known to all Nations for the Obedience of Faith to God only Wise be Glory through Jesus Christ for ever Amen The holy Apostle calls the principal Subject of all his preaching viz. that JESUS CHRIST is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World a MYSTERY both with respect to its having been kept secret and with respect to its present Manifestation If the Word Mystery signified nothing else but a Matter kept secret viz. wholly secret or undiscover'd then indeed the Matter being Reveal'd there would be no Mystery But certainly if the word had no other Signification but of a Matter kept secret the Apostle would never have us'd this Expression the Revelation of the Mystery that was kept secret But says our Adversary Yes Even As that may be call'd our Task which we have long since perform'd Answ. A Task being a Work which we are enjoyn'd to perform we may properly say it was our Task but 't would be absurd to say that any Work is our Task which we have long since perform'd 'T is evident therefore that the blessed Apostle by the word Mystery wou'd have us to understand that the principal Subject of all his preaching viz. that JESUS CHRIST is the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World though now it be made known or declar'd to all Nations still remains a Mystery being such a wonderful Contrivance and Effect of infinite Wisdom and Power to reconcile infinite vindictive Justice or Hatred of SIN to infinite Goodness and Mercy in bringing SINNERS to true Repentance and eternal Life that it passeth Knowledge i. e. that it infinitely transcends the utmost Capacity of any finite Understanding so that a pious Soul in the Contemplation thereof finds Matter of perpetual ADMIRATION Eph. 3.8 9. Unto me who am less than the least of all Saints is this Grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the UNSEARCHABLE RICHES of Christ and to make all Men see what is the Fellowship of the MYSTERY which from the Beginning of the World hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ. By the Riches of Christ we are to understand the Abundance of his Excellencies and Perfections communicable to those that OBEY him by Virtue of his being the Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World The blessed Apostle plainly shews that the Subject of his preaching is a MYSTERY in that he calls it the unsearchable Riches of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the following Verse he expresly calls it a Mystery The LORD grant that by the Illumination of his holy Spirit we may so clearly understand that CHRISTIANITY is MYSTERIOUS i. e. that the RICHES OF CHRIST are UNSEARCHABLE that all our natural Desires of Knowledge may be so sanctified as to be resolv'd into this one Desire that we may know the Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge that we may be fill'd with all the Fullness of GOD. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS