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Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…
Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.
London printed : s.n., 1685
REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 6 › USES.REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. › Sermon 6 › VSES.
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2. We have a relief from the Justice of God. All will grant that God is, and that God is a rewarder of good and bad. Now in this Life he doth not dispense these rewards: Many times here, instruments of public good are made a sacrifice to public hatred, and wicked men have the world at will; therefore there is a Judgment, when this life is ended; and if there be a Judgment, men must be capable to receive reward and punishment. You will say, so they are by having an immortal Soul; I, but the soul is not all of a man, the body is a part; it hath had its share in the work, and therefore it is most equal to conceive it shall have its share in the reward and punishment. It is the body which is gratified by the pleasure of sin for a season, the body which hath endured the ⟨p. 164⟩trouble and pain of Faithful obedience unto Christ, therefore there shall be a Resurrection of just and unjust that men may receive according to what they have done in the body. God made the whole man, therefore glorifies and punishes the whole man. The Apostle urgeth this as to the Godly, 1 Cor. 15.29.
2. We have a releif from the Justice of God. All will grant that God is, and that God is a rewarder of good and bad. Now in this Life he doth not dispense these rewards: Many times here, instruments of publick good are made a sacrifice to publick hatred, and wicked men have the world at will; therefore there is a Judgment, when this life is ended; and if there be a Judgment, men must be capable to receive reward and punishment. You will say, so they are by having an immortal Soul; I, but the soul is not all of a man, the body is a part; it hath had its share in the work, and therefore it is most equal to conceive it shall have its share in the reward and punishment. It is the body which is gratified by the pleasure of sin for a season, the body which hath endured the ⟨p. 164⟩trouble and pain of Faithful obedience unto Christ, therefore there shall be a Resurrection of just and unjust that men may receive according to what they have done in the body. God made the whole man, therefore glorifies and punishes the whole man. The Apostle urgeth this as to the Godly,