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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. What it is about which this claimed Power is to be conversant?
3. What sort of Power it is that this emblematical expression, signifies to belong to him?
1. Who it is that claims the Power here spoken of?. Where the Enquiry is not so much concerning the Person that makes this claim; which all the foregoing context puts out of question to be our Lord Christ. But touching the special notion and capacity wherein he claims it, and according ⟨p. 4⟩whereto it must be understood to belong to him.
And whereas he is described by very distinct Titles, and Attributes, promiscuously interwoven in the preceding verses of the chapter, viz. that sometimes he is introduced speaking in the stile of a God; as ver. 8. I am Alpha, and Omega, the beginning, and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. And again, v 11. I am Alpha, and Omega. But that sometimes he is represented in the form of a Man and accordingly described even from head to foot, and said to appear in the Vision that exhibits him, as one like the Son of Man, that we might certainly understand him so to be, verse 13, 14, 15, 16. And such things said of him as are incident to a Mortal Man, the shedding of