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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.
2. Then there is Consolation and Comfort, which notes an habitual Persuasion of God's Love; there is an habitual Confidence, a serenity and cheerfulness of Mind: Though there be not high Tides of Comfort, there is Support, though not Ravishment. It is called Everlasting Consolation, 2 Thess. 2.16, 17. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us, and given us Everlasting Consolation, and good Hope through Grace, comfort your Hearts, and establish you in every good Word and Work. There is a settled Comfort, and he prayeth for the continuance and increase of it. When the Heart is lightened or eased in Duties or Troubles, it is bewrayed by a constant Cheerfulness and Alacrity in God's Service, and Support in Troubles.
2. Then there is Consolation and Comfort, which notes an habitual Perswasion of God's Love; there is an habitual Confidence, a serenity and chearfulness of Mind: Though there be not high Tides of Comfort, there is Support, though not Ravishment. It is called Everlasting Consolation, 2 Thess. 2.16, 17. Now our Lord Iesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us, and given us Everlasting Consolation, and good Hope through Grace, comfort your Hearts, and establish you in every good Word and Work. There is a settled Comfort, and he prayeth for the continuance and increase of it. When the Heart is lightned or eased in Duties or Troubles, it is bewrayed by a constant Chearfulness and Alacrity in God's Service, and Support in Troubles.
3. Then there is Joy, or an high and sensible Comfort: Rom. 15.13. Now the God of Hope fill you with all Joy and Peace in believing, that ye may abound in Hope through the Power of the Holy Ghost. This abides not always, it is a Festival Dispensation, wherewith God entertains the Soul in the Day of his Royalty and Magnificence, he useth it but now and then. We have this high Joy, either after the Pangs of the new Birth, when deep Sorrows were occasioned by the Spirit of Bondage. When David's Bones were broken, then make me to hear Joy and Gladness,