The Mystery of Christ

By Increase Mather | Edited by P.J. Mills

Increase Mather wrote The Mystery of Christ in 1686 just one year after being named the first American born president of Harvard University and in the middle of his remarkable 62-year pastoral ministry at Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts. In Mather’s words, “this book is a collection of sermons and sacramental meditations on the person, divinity, offices, and glory of Christ.” This work was written in a very readable and devotional manner and intended not primarily for the advanced theologian (though they may absolutely benefit from this work as well) but the layman who desires to know Christ more.