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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.
Secondly, The Ends of it. By this Transfiguration God would show
Secondly, The Ends of it. By this Transfiguration God would shew
1. What Christ was. 2. What he should be. And 3. Also what we shall be.
1. What Christ was. The Dignity of his Person and Office; that he was the Eternal Son of God, and the Mediator of the New Covenant; the great Prophet whom God would raise up to his People.
(1.) The Dignity of his Person was seen, for the Transfiguration was a Ray of the Divine Glory. It was not the Addition of any Glory to Christ which he had not before, ⟨p. 52⟩but a Manifestation of the Glory which he had, though obscured under the Veil of our Flesh, for the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily;