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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.
2. For the other correlate, The Church is the Body: by the Church is meant the Church Mystical, or all such as are called out of the World to be a peculiar people unto God. Now these considered collectively, or together they are a body, but singly and separately every Believer is a member of that body, 1 Cor. 12.29. Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular, all the parts and members joined together are a spiritual body, but the several Persons are members of that Body. Yea though there be many particular Churches, yet they are not many bodies, but one body, so it is said 1 Cor. 12.12. As the body is one and hath many members, and all the members of that body being many are one body, so also is Christ. He is the Head, and the many and divers members of the universal Christian Church are but one Body. The universal invisible Church of real Believers is one Mystical Body knit by Faith, to Christ their Head; and by love among themselves: And the visible universal Church is one politic Body conjoined with Christ their Head, and among themselves by an external entering into Covenant with God, and the serious profession of all saving Truths. They have all the same King and Head: the same Laws the Word ⟨p. 108⟩of God, the same Sacraments of admission and nutrition, which visibly at least they subject themselves unto: and have a grant of the same common privileges in the Gospel, but of this more anon.
2. For the other correlate, The Church is the Body: by the Church is meant the Church Mystical, or all such as are called out of the World to be a peculiar people unto God. Now these considered collectively, or together they are a body, but singlely and separately every Believer is a member of that body, 1 Cor. 12.29. Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular, all the parts and members joyned together are a spiritual body, but the several Persons are members of that Body. Yea though there be many particular Churches, yet they are not many bodies, but one body, so it is said 1 Cor. 12.12