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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
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(3.) We shall see this Glory when fit for it, Joh. 17. 24. Father, I will that they ⟨p. 54⟩whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. The Queen of Sheba took a long Journey to behold the glory of Solomon, that was but a Temporal, Fading and Earthly Glory. Now much more Transcendent is the Glory of Christs Body in Heaven; this we shall see to all Eternity.
(3.) We shall see this Glory when fit for it, Ioh. 17. 24. Father, I will that they ⟨p. 54⟩whom thou hast given me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. The Queen of Sheba took a long Journey to behold the glory of Solomon, that was but a Temporal, Fading and Earthly Glory. Now much more Transcendent is the Glory of Christs Body in Heaven; this we shall see to all Eternity.
3. To show what we shall be; for Christ is the Pattern, primum in unoquoque genere, &c.
3. To shew what we shall be; for Christ is the Pattern, primum in unoquoque genere, &c.
(1.) It showeth the possibility of our having a glorified Body. When the Lord is pleased to let forth and communicate his Glory, he is able to adorn and beautify our Earthly and obscure bodies, the body of man in its composition hath a great mixture of Earth which is dark and obscure. Now God can make this clod of Earth to shine as the Star or Sun for brightness,