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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.
1. In Prayer, you may urge God with his Promise and Oath. We put our selves in remembrance by pleading with God, therefore God alloweth the humble Challenges of Faith. Put me in remembrance, saith God, Isa. 43.26. or rather put your selves in remembrance. By pleading with God, we wrestle with him, that we may catch a Heat our selves. Tell the Lord what an hold-fast you have upon him▪ show him his Hand-writing. As Austin said of his Mother, she showed him his Hand-writing: Or, as Tamar brought out to Judah the Bracelets, and Staff, and Ring, and said, Whose are these? So you may plead, Ah Lord! are not these thine own Promises? and, is not this thy Oath? The Children of God have done both; they put him in mind of his Word, Psal. 119.49. Remember the Word unto thy Servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope: As if he had said, Lord! thou hast invited my Hope, I should never have had the Boldness to have expected so great a Mercy and Privilege in Christ, if thy Promise was not passed. God forgetteth not, and yet he loveth that the Saints should put him in remembrance, he would have you to revive these Grounds of Trust and Confidence. Then they put him in mind of his Oath, Psal. 89.49. Lord, where are thy former Loving-kindnesses, which thou swearest unto David in thy Truth? It is a great advantage in believing, thus to put in a modest Challenge to God.
1. In Prayer, you may urge God with his Promise and Oath. We put our selves in remembrance by pleading with God, therefore God alloweth the humble Challenges of Faith. Put me in remembrance, saith God, Isa. 43.26. or rather put your selves in remembrance. By pleading with God, we wrestle with him, that we may catch a Heat our selves. Tell the Lord what an hold-fast you have upon him▪ shew him his Hand-writing. As Austin said of his Mother, she shewed him his Hand-writing: Or, as Tamur brought out to Iudah the Bracelets, and Staff, and Ring, and said, Whose are these? So you may plead, Ah Lord! are not these thine own Promises? and, is not this thy Oath? The Children of God have done both; they put him in mind of his Word,