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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.
II. In a way of Causality. So he is the beginning, either as a Moral, or efficient cause.
1. As a moral Meritorious cause: We are renewed by Gods creating power, but through the intervening Mediation of Christ: Or Gods creating power is put forth with respect to his Merit. The life of Grace, is purchased by his death: 1 Joh. 4.9. God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live by him. Here ⟨p. 138⟩spiritually, hereafter eternally. For life is opposite to death incurred by sin. We were dead legally, as sentenced to death by the Law; and spiritually, as disabled for the service of our Creator. And how by him? that he speaketh of verse 10. by his being a propitiation. We were in the state of death, when the doors of Mercy were first opened to us, under the guilt and power of sin; but we live, when the guilt of sin is pardoned, and the power of sin broken; but this life we have not without Christs being a propitiation for our sins, or doing that which was necessary, whereby God without impeachment of honour might show himself placable and propitious to Mankind.
1. As a moral Meritorious cause: We are renewed by Gods creating power, but through the intervening Mediation of Christ: Or Gods creating power is put forth with respect to his Merit. The life of Grace, is purchased by his death: 1 Ioh. 4.9. God sent his onely begotten son into the world, that we might live by him. Here ⟨p. 138⟩spiritually, hereafter eternally. For life is opposite to death incurred by sin. We were dead legally, as sentenced to death by the Law; and spiritually, as disabled for the service of our Creator. And how by him? that he speaketh of verse 10. by his being a propitiation. We were in the state of death, when the doors of Mercy were first opened to us, under the guilt and power of sin; but we live, when the guilt of sin is pardoned, and the power of sin broken; but this life we have not without Christs being a propitiation for our sins, or doing that which was necessary, whereby God without impeachment of honour might shew himself placable and propitious to Mankind.