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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.
1. In respect unto Christ his death was [Greek or Hebrew], for he went out of this mortal Life into Glory, and so it implieth both his suffering Death, and also his Resurrection, Act. 2. 24. God hath raised him up, having loosed the pains of Death, because it was impossible he ⟨p. 71⟩should be holden of it. The Grave was like a Woman ready to be delivered, it suffered Throws till this blessed burden was egested.
1. In respect unto Christ his death was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, for he went out of this mortal Life into Glory, and so it implyeth both his suffering Death, and also his Resurrection, Act. 2. 24. God hath raised him up, having loosed the pains of Death, because it was impossible he ⟨p. 71⟩should be holden of it. The Grave was like a Woman ready to be delivered, it suffered Throws till this blessed burden was egested.
2. With respect to us Peter calls his death [Greek or Hebrew], 2 Pet. 1. 15. I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease, the death of the Godly is a going out but from sin, and sorrow, to glory, and immortality, as Israels going out of Egypt, (whence the second Book of Moses is called Exodus) was no destruction and cessation of their being, but a going out of the House of Bondage into Liberty. Paul saith, I desire to be dissolved, [Greek or Hebrew], Phil. 1. 23. a setting sail for the other World. In Scripture language the body is the House, the soul is the Inhabitant,