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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 1693
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.
4. Consider what Christ hath done in purchasing our Salvation. It was no Play and Sport to redeem the World. Christ was not in jest when he yielded up himself to be tempted, to be persecuted, to be crucified, to be exercised with bitter Agonies; and is all this Expense and Cost for nothing? The Temptations of Christ, and the Sorrows of his Cross, they all show that it is no easy matter to bring a Soul to Heaven; and therefore shall not we be zealous? Carnal and careless Christians do lessen Christ's Sufferings interpretatively, as if they were not so great; they trifle and dally, and complement in Religion, and so do not make it so weighty a matter to save their Souls. Luke 24.26. Ought not Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his Glory? And ver. 46. Thus it behoved Christ to suffer. As matters were laid in God's Decree, nothing else would serve the turn, Christ ought to suffer, it was fore-ordained.
4. Consider what Christ hath done in purchasing our Salvation. It was no Play and Sport to redeem the World. Christ was not in jest when he yielded up himself to be tempted, to be persecuted, to be crucified, to be exercised with bitter Agonies; and is all this Expence and Cost for nothing? The Temptations of Christ, and the Sorrows of his Cross, they all shew that it is no easy matter to bring a Soul to Heaven; and therefore shall not we be zealous? Carnal and careless Christians do lessen Christ's Sufferings interpretatively, as if they were not so great; they trifle and dally, and complement in Religion, and so do not make it so weighty a matter to save their Souls. Luke 24.26. Ought not Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his Glory? And ver. 46. Thus it behoved Christ to suffer. As matters were laid in God's Decree, nothing else would serve the turn, Christ ought to suffer, it was fore-ordained.
But you will say, How do you force this Zealousness, and Earnestness for good Works out of what Christ hath done? for if he hath done so much, what need we do any more?