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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 6 › USES.REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 6 › VSES.
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Doctrine. That Christs rising from the dead is the evidence and assurance of a Christians happy Resurrection.
1. Let me open the Terms. 2. Vindicate the Notion. 3. Show you how this is an Evidence and Assurance to all good Christians of their happy and joyful Resurrection.
1. Let me open the Terms. 2. Vindicate the Notion. 3. Shew you how this is an Evidence and Assurance to all good Christians of their happy and joyful Resurrection.
1. For the Terms. He is here called The first-born from the dead. If the Grave was as the Womb to him, and his Resurrection ⟨p. 146⟩as a Birth, then Christ was in a manner born when he rose again. Only he hath the precedency, he is the first-born, he rises first, and surely others will follow after him. So we read, Acts 26.23. That he should be the first-born that should rise from the dead; as he saith elsewhere, first Christ, then they that are Christs. Christ hath the primacy of Order, and the principality of influence. So again, he is said to be the first fruits of them that slept, 1 Cor. 15.20. As in the consecrating of the first-fruits, the whole harvest is also consecrated; so Christ by rising himself, raises all others with him to Eternal Glory and Happiness. And so his Resurrection is a certain proof that others shall have a Resurrection also.
1. For the Terms. He is here called The first-born from the dead. If the Grave was as the Womb to him, and his Resurrection