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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
REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 5 › USES.REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 5 › VSES.
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Use I. Is Information: To show how much we are bound to God for putting this honour upon us, that Christ should be our head. Christ is over the Angels in point of Superiority and Government, but not properly ⟨p. 128⟩said to be an head to them, in that strict notion which implies relation to the Church: As to influence, he is not an head to them: You will say they are confirmed by him; but the Mediation of Christ presupposes the Fall of Adam, for Christ had not been Mediator, if Adam had never fallen. Now if Christ should come to confirm Angels, if this had not been, is groundless; besides Christ merited for those that have benefit by him, and the consummate act of his Merit is his Death; but where is it said that he died for Angels.
Use I. Is Information: To shew how much we are bound to God for putting this honour upon us, that Christ should be our head. Christ is over the Angels in point of Superiority and Government, but not properly ⟨p. 128⟩said to be an head to them, in that strict notion which implies relation to the Church: As to influence, he is not an head to them: You will say they are confirmed by him; but the Mediation of Christ presupposes the Fall of Adam, for Christ had not been Mediator, if Adam had never fallen. Now if Christ should come to confirm Angels, if this had not been, is groundless; besides Christ merited for those that have benefit by him, and the consummate act of his Merit is his Death; but where is it said that he died for Angels.