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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. Observe, That there was a voice distinctly, and audibly, heard. Though God did sensibly now manifest his presence in the Mount with Christ, and did audibly speak to them, yet he did not appear in any distinct form, and shape either of man, or any other living Creature, but all was done by a voice out of the cloud, so Deut. 4. 12. Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude, and verse 15. take good heed to your selves, for ye saw no similitude in the day that the Lord spake to you in Horeb, least ye corrupt your selves, and make to you any graven Image. The similitude of any figure, &c. The voice of God, may with less danger come to us then any sight or representation of him.
2. The matter or what this voice said, This is my beloved Son, hear ye him. By this voice there is.
1. A Testimony given to Christ. 2. A command to hear him. Or (1.) The dignity of Christ, he is the beloved Son of God, in whom he is well pleased. (2.) A suitable respect bespoken for him.