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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 7 › USE.REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 7 › VSE.
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3. The greater any person is, the more danger there is of giving him titles that do not belong to him; for that is to place him in an honour to which he hath greater pretensions then others: but no right, especially doth this hold good in Religion, it is true in Civils. (To give one next the King, the Title of King, would awaken the jealousy of Princes, and breed much inconvenience) but especially doth this hold good in Religion, where God is so jealous of giving his glory to another, Isa. 42.80. Therefore the greater the dignity of Christ was above all other creatures, the more caution was necessary, that the name of God might not be ascribed to him, if he were only mere Man, and it did not properly agree to him: for the more dangerous the error the more cautiously should we abstain from it.
3. The greater any person is, the more danger there is of giving him titles that do not belong to him; for that is to place him in an honour to which he hath greater pretensions then others: but no right, especially doth this hold good in Religion, it is true in Civils. (To give one next the King, the Title of King, would awaken the jealousie of Princes, and breed much inconvenience) but especially doth this hold good in Religion, where God is so jealous of giving his glory to another, Isa. 42.80. Therefore the greater the dignity of Christ was above all other creatures, the more caution was necessary, that the name of God might not be ascribed to him, if he were only mere Man, and it did not properly agree to him: for the more dangerous the error the more cautiously should we abstain from it.
4. Consider the person by whom this title was given; by a Godly Man: No godly man would call an Idol, or a Magistrate, or a Teacher, or a King or an Angel, or any created thing above an Angel, His ⟨p. 201⟩Lord, and his God. But this was done by Thomas, one bred up in the Religion taught by Moses and the Prophets; and the chief point of that Religion was, that God is but one;