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Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…
Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.
London printed : s.n., 1685
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2. To work upon our love, that Christ may have the chief room in our hearts: there is no such argument to work upon our love, as that God over all blessed for ever, should come to relieve man in such a condescending way, 1 John 3.16. Hereby we perceive the love which God hath to us in that he laid down his life for us, that very person that dyed for us was God. There was power discovered in the creation, when God made us like himself out of the dust of the ground, but love in our Redemption, ⟨p. 44⟩when he made himself like us. The person that was to work out our deliverance was the Eternal Son of God. That God that owes nothing to man, and was so much offended by man, and that stood in no need of man, having infinite happiness and contentment in himself; that he should come and dye for us! hereby perceive we the love of God. When we consider what Christ is, we shall most admire what he hath done for us.
2. To work upon our love, that Christ may have the chief room in our hearts: there is no such argument to work upon our love, as that God over all blessed for ever, should come to relieve man in such a condescending way, 1 Iohn 3.16. Hereby we perceive the love which God hath to us in that he layed down his life for us, that very person that dyed for us was God. There was power discovered in the creation, when God made us like himself out of the dust of the ground, but love in our Redemption, ⟨p. 44⟩when he made himself like us. The person that was to work out our deliverance was the Eternal Son of God. That God that owes nothing to man, and was so much offended by man, and that stood in no need of man, having infinite happiness and contentment in himself; that he should come and dye for us! hereby perceive we the love of God. When we consider what Christ is, we shall most admire what he hath done for us.