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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.
1. It implies his Authority to Govern as is manifest, by Eph. 5.22, 23. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands as unto the Lord, for the husband is the head of the Wife even as Christ is the head of the Church. So that to be the Churches Head, implies superiority or right to govern.
1. It implyes his Authority to Govern as is manifest, by Eph. 5.22, 23. Wives submit your selves to your own husbands as unto the Lord, for the husband is the head of the Wife even as Christ is the head of the Church. So that to be the Churches Head, implies superiority or right to govern.
2. For the other notion in regard of influence, that is evident in Scripture also, Col. 2.19. Not holding the head from which all the body by joints and bands, having nourishment ministered and knit together increases with the increase of God, the head is the root from whence the vital faculty is diffused to all the members. We use to say […] arbour inversa, a Tree turned upsided […] if this be so, the Head is the […] Tree. So doth Life flow from […] the Church, the spirit is from […] begin the union or to continue the […] ⟨p. 118⟩But let us speak of these branches apart.
2. For the other notion in regard of influence, that is evident in Scripture also, Col. 2.19. Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands, having nourishment ministred and knit together increases with the increase of God, the head is the root from whence the vital faculty is disfused to all the members. We use to say 〈…〉 arbor inversa, a Tree turned upsided if this be so, the Head is the Tree. So doth Life flow from the Church, the spirit is from begin the union or to connue the