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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.
This was one solemn Act, and part of Christs Manifestation to the World, for we have the Record of it here; and it was necessary, for Christ doth nothing in vain; and here are competent Witnesses, three persons of eminent Holiness, before whom all this was done, and they were Eye-witnesses of his Majesty, and Ear-witnesses of the Oracle, which they heard from Heaven, or the Voice from the excellent Glory.
I shall open,
First, The Nature of this Transfiguration.
Secondly, The Ends of it.
First, The Nature of this Transfiguration. It was a Glorious Alteration in the Appearance and Qualities of his Body; not a substantial Alteration in the Substance of it: It was not a change wrought in the Essential form and substance of Christ's Body, but only the outward form was changed, being more full of Glory and Majesty, then it used to be or appeared to be.