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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
SERMONS UPON St. JOHN XIV.1. › Sermon 1SERMONS UPON St. IOHN XIV.1. › Sermon 1
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.
SERMON I.
JOHN XIV.1. Let not your Heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
THE Disciples had heard our Lord Jesus discoursing of his Death and Departure, and the great Trials which they were to undergo; and that one Disciple should betray him, another eminent among them deny him, and all take offence and leave him; therefore Fear and Trouble seized upon them. Our Lord perceiving this Distemper growing upon them, seeketh to relieve and ease them. He had Sorrow and Agonies of his own to think upon; but he is so taken up with comforting his Disciples, that he seemeth to forget himself and his own approaching Death, and wholly applieth himself to them; Let not your Heart be troubled, &c.
In these Words we have, (1.) An Evil dissuaded, Let not your Heart be troubled. (2.) A Cure prescribed, and that is the Exercise of Faith, set forth by its double Object, God and Christ; Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In God, as the supreme Fountain of all Blessing; in Christ, as Mediator, or the only Way to come to God. In God, as the Creator and Preserver of all things; in Christ, as the Redeemer, to whom the Care and Conservation of the Church belongeth. They did believe in God, they were trained up in that as Jews; but they had not hitherto so clear, so distinct, so strong a Faith in Christ, as they should have; their Faith was but dark and weak as to the Dignity of his Person: Therefore he presseth them to believe, not only in God, as Jews, but in himself, as Christians: that was the Point, the Faith of which would be now assaulted by his ignominious Death and Sufferings.