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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
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.
Several of the Points mentioned are Controversial; for a long tract of time there has been hot disputes about them; what Volumes pro and con have been written, both by Ancient and Modern Divines about them! but our Reverend Author does not so much concern himself in what is Polemical and Controversial, but chose rather in a plainer way (as best suiting with Sermon-work), to assert and prove the Truth by Scriptural Testimonies and Arguments: and that he has done to the full.
Several of the Points mentioned are Controversial; for a long tract of time there has been hot disputes about them; what Volumes pro and con have been written, both by Antient and Modern Divines about them! but our Reverend Author does not so much concern himself in what is Polemical and Controversial, but chose rather in a plainer way (as best suiting with Sermon-work), to assert and prove the Truth by Scriptural Testimonies and Arguments: and that he has done to the full.
Reader, whoever thou art into whose hands these Sermons shall come, let me assure thee, they are the genuine Work of the person whose name they bear. They were copied out from and according to his own Notes, by one who I am sure would be as exact therein as possibly he could. But how earnestly ⟨image 5⟩could I wish, if God had not seen it good to order it otherwise, that the Author himself might have lived to have reviewed and polished them! (for what hand so fit to polish the Stone as that which cuts it:) but now what is amiss, must be left to the understanding Reader to discover, and to the candid Reader to pardon.
Reader, whoever thou art into whose hands these Sermons shall come, let me assure thee, they are the genuine Work of the person whose name they bear. They were copyed out from and according to his own Notes, by one who I am sure would be as exact therein as possibly he could. But how earnestly ⟨image 5⟩could I wish, if God had not seen it good to order it otherwise, that the Author himself might have lived to have reviewed and polished them! (for what hand so fit to polish the Stone as that which cuts it:) but now what is amiss, must be left to the understanding Reader to discover, and to the candid Reader to pardon.