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woman_n	bruise_v	heel_n	serpent_n	2,564	5	9.8176	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29348	The mighty Christ the saints help, or, A cleer discovery of the mightinesse and excellency of Christ in all things of and concerning him from the first promise of him, to his last appearing and kingdome : with application thereof to the severall states and conditions of men : being the substance of severall sermons preached at Northwalsham in Norfolk, upon Psal. 89, 19, I have laid help on one that is mighty / by Richard Breviter.	Breviter, Richard.	1662 (1662)	Wing B4424A; ESTC R25944	132,959	309

the world to come under him so much is hinted Heb. 2.5 8. For unto the Angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come that is Honour peculiar to his Son under whose feet he hath put all things in subjection though now we see not yet all things put under him so much is expressed Eph. 1.20 God hath set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places farre above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come Secondly He is Mighty in rule and Authority in regard of the Measure of it he hath not onely power over all but he hath all power over all Math. 28.18 All power is given unto me in Heaven and Earth he hath an Absolute dispose of all things he doth whatsoever he will in the Church in Heaven in Earth in Hell God hath set him up over all and left all things to him Joh. 5.22 The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgement to the Son so that he hath power to set up and pull downe to save and to destroy what and whom he will Thus it appeareth that Christ Jesus is a Mighty one in every sense and acceptation of the word Christ may be Considered First In respect of his Eternall Essence and being as he was one with the Father before the Foundation of the world was laid and so considered he is a Mighty One the onely Mighty One from everlasting the true God blessed for ever the Apostle speaking of him with reference to his eternall essence saith Phil. 2.6 Being in the Forme of God thought it not Robbery to be equall with God thus he is the Mightiest Highest God Secondly In respect of his Mediatourship as he took upon him to come between God and man to transact all matters between them and thus considered he is a Mighty One Foure things especially about his Mediatourship in Generall speak forth the Mightiness of Christ. First The singularity and oneness of the person Mediating not Many not a Few not two but One Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2.5 There was none with him in his difficult worke of Mediatorship but he carried it on alone there was none with him to helpe him therefore his own Arme brought salvation both unto him and us which speaks him to be a Mighty One Moses was a Mighty one in that he stood and that alone between the Lord and the Children of Israel on the Mountaine and yet but a shaddow of this One great Mediator Christ Jesus Secondly The Greatness of the persons between whom he doth Mediate he is usually a Mighty One that is Mediator between either Mighty Persons or Nations even the greatest mightiest and most excellent One they can finde then how Mighty must he be that is Mediator between the Almighty Highest God and Man the chiefe of the Creatures Thirdly The weightinesse of the Matter it being of greatest concernment no less than the bringing of souls which were afar off unto God 1 Pet. 3.18 the making sinners righteous yea righteousness 2 Cor. 5.21 the reconciling all things in heaven and earth unto God Col. 1.20 the turning away Gods wrath from sinners the destroying of the enmity that is in their minds against him and so the salvation of them that are lost Fourthly The exact performance and accomplishment of the whole business According to what was prophecied of him Dan. 9.24 He did make reconciliation for iniquity and brought in Everlasting Righteousnesse He did not begin do something and then faint and leave his work imperfect but he finished it and that to the Glory of his Father that sent him as himselfe testifieth in his prayer to his Father Joh. 17.4 I have glorified thee on the Earth I have finished the worke which thou gavest me to do surely he is a Mighty One Demonstrations of the Mightinesse of Christ the Mediator First He is a Mighty One in his Originall and rise from whence he came himselfe told the Jews Joh. 8.23 That he was from above and not of this World and that he proceeded forth and came from God When John heard he was come and manifested himselfe by preaching and Baptizing magnified him upon this account Joh. 3.31 He that cometh from above is above all He that cometh from Heaven is above all And by this the Apostle doth distinguish him from and exalt him above the first Adam 1 Cor. 15.47 The first man is of the Earth Earthly the second man is the Lord from Heaven Secondly He is a Mighty One in the first promise of him the first hint and report of him is of a Mighty One a Conquerour of the Devill In that this blessed seed of the Woman should bruise the Serpents head according as it is written Gen. 3.15 I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy seed and her seed It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heele the first appearance and coming forth of Christ in the promise is as of a Mighty one prevailing against mans mightiest Enemy the Devill Thirdly He is a Mighty One in the Types of him First In the multitude of them every thing almost which was before him being a Type and shaddow of him as the Passeover Rock Mannah brazen-Brazen-Serpent 1 Cor. 5.7 Joh. 6.32 48 50. 1 Cor. 10.4 Joh. 3.14 15. The Priests Tabernacle Altar Sanctuary the Feasts Sacrifices and all the Ceremoniall rites Col. 2.16 17. Heb. 1. ad 11 verse Aarons Bells as one saith sounded Jesus Christ and him crucified surely he is some Mighty one indeed that the Lord did fore-signifie by so many things Secondly In the Mightiness of them I meane the personall Types of him who were not meane but mighty ones As Adam whom God made so mighty giving him Lordship over the Creatures was a type of him that then was to come Rom. 5.14 Melchisedec that great and mighty one of whose greatness the Apostle exhorts the Hebrews to consider Heb. 7.4 Now consider how great this man was unto whom even the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils was a Type of Christ Moses Josuah David those Great and eminent Saviours and Deliverers of the Children of Israel were but types and shaddows of that Great and mighty Saviour and Deliverer of his people Jesus Christ And if the shaddows be thus Mighty the body and substance must be very Mighty Fourthly He is a Mighty One in the Prophecies of him I shall not lay any weight upon the predictions of him to the Gentiles by the famous Sybils to whom much is attributed by some who are said to Prophecy of him as of a Mighty One an universall King that should be Lord over Romanes and all others Nor yet upon Diabolicall Oracles mentioned in History as the Answer of Apollo from Delphos to Augustus Caesar the Emperour demanding of him who should reigne after him after