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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.
Two things are to be handled; 1. How it differed from his Body at another time, whilst he Conversed here on Earth. 2. How this change differed from the State of his Body as it is now in Glory.
1. How his Body now Transfigured, differed from his Body at other times during his Conversing with Men. Though the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him always, yet the state of his Body was disposed so, as might best serve for the decency of Humane Conversation; as the Sun in a Rainy Cloudy day is not seen, but now as it might ⟨p. 49⟩cover his Divine Nature, it would break out in Vigour and Strength.
1. How his Body now Transfigured, differed from his Body at other times during his Conversing with Men. Though the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him always, yet the state of his Body was disposed so, as might best serve for the decency of Humane Conversation; as the Sun in a Rainy Cloudy day is not seen, but now as it might ⟨p. 49⟩cover his Divine Nature, it would break out in Vigor and Strength.
(1.) It was not a Change or Alteration of the substance of the Body, as if it were turned into a Spiritual Substance; no, it remained still a true Humane Mortal Body with the same Nature and Properties it had before, only it became bright and glorious.
(1.) It was not a Change or Alteration of the substance of the Body, as if it were turned into a Spiritual Substance; no, it remained still a true Humane Mortal Body with the same Nature and Properties it had before, onely it became bright and glorious.