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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 8 › USE.REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 8 › VSE.
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1. God is willing to give it, verse 19. It pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell, there is Gods authority and good pleasure in it. The first motive came from God who received the wrong, not from him that gave it. God was in Christ, 2 Cor. 5.14. Among men the inferior should seek to the superior. The party offending to the party offended, the weaker to the stronger, they that need the Reconciliation to him that needeth it not, but here all is contrary.
1. God is willing to give it, verse 19. It pleased the Father that in him all fullness should dwell, there is Gods authority and good pleasure in it. The first motive came from God who received the wrong, not from him that gave it. God was in Christ, 2 Cor. 5.14. Among men the inferiour should seek to the superior. The party offending to the party offended, the weaker to the stronger, they that need the Reconciliation to him that needeth it not, but here all is contrary.
2. You may be confident of it upon another ground, the sufficiency of Christ to procure all fullness. The whole divine nature did inhabit and reside in the man Christ Jesus, and so he is completely fitted, and furnished for this work: he hath paid a full price for this peace when he bare our sins and carried our sorrows, and by his Spirit he changes our hearts as well as pacifies the wrath of God. And then he preserveth this peace by his constant intercession, Heb. 2.17, 18. Now shall we doubt of it? But that we may get it.
2. You may be confident of it upon another ground, the sufficiency of Christ to procure all fullness. The whole divine nature did inhabit and reside in the man Christ Jesus, and so he is compleatly fitted, and furnished for this work: he hath paid a full price for this peace when he bare our sins and carryed our sorrows, and by his Spirit he changes our hearts as well as pacifies the wrath of God. And then he preserveth this peace by his constant intercession,