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Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /
Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons / by the late 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.
I Mean to handle the Transfiguration of Christ which was, 1. A solemn Confirmation of his Person and Office. 2. A pledge of that glorious estate which is reserved for us in Heaven.
1. It was a confirmation of his Person and Office, as appeareth Matth. 17. 5. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him. So Peter who was one present urgeth it, 2 Pet. 3. 16, 17, 18. We have not followed cunningly devised Fables when we made known unto you, the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of His Majesty. For he received from God the Father Honour and Glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount; and John also John 1. 14. We beheld his glory, as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, they were Eye and Earwitnesses, and therefore could affirm the certainty of this Doctrine.
1. It was a confirmation of his Person and Office, as appeareth Matth. 17. 5. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him. So Peter who was one present urgeth it, 2 Pet. 3. 16, 17, 18. We have not followed cunningly devised Fables when we made known unto you, the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of His Majesty. For he received from God the Father Honour and Glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount; and Iohn also