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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.
The Papists (to excuse the grossness of Merit) say, That our Works do not merit, but as they come from the Grace of God, and as they are sprinkled with the Blood of Christ. But, mark, it is not enough so to ascribe our Works to the Grace of God; all Self-justiciaries will do so, as the Pharisee that pleaded his Works, Luke 18.11. God, I thank thee, I am not as other Men are. And you confound the Covenants, when you think that a Man may merit of God by his own Grace. Adam under the Covenant of Works, might then be said to be saved by Grace; Why? Because he could not persevere in the use of his own Free-will, unless he had received it of God. Well then, Grace doth not exclude Faith, nor Works; not Faith as the Instrument of Justification, and as the Condition of the Covenant; not Works, as the Fruit and Testimony of Faith. There is a Concurrence of Works, but not by way of Causality, but Order; God will first justify, then sanctify, then ⟨p. 5⟩glorify, and all of Grace. Obedience is the Conditio […] quâ non, the Condition without which we cannot be saved. The Grace of God is the first moving Cause▪ Christ is the meritorious procuring Cause, Faith is the Instrument, and Obedience is the Fruit of Faith. These are subordinate, not contrary.
The Papists (to excuse the grossness of Merit) say, That our Works do not merit, but as they come from the Grace of God, and as they are sprinkled with the Blood of Christ. But, mark, it is not enough so to ascribe our Works to the Grace of God; all Self-justiciaries will do so, as the Pharisee that pleaded his Works, Luke 18.11. God, I thank thee, I am not as other Men are. And you confound the Covenants, when you think that a Man may merit of God by his own Grace. Adam under the Covenant of Works, might then be said to be saved by Grace; Why? Because he could not persevere in the use of his own Free-will, unless he had received it of God. Well then, Grace doth not exclude Faith, nor Works; not Faith as the Instrument of Justification, and as the Condition of the Covenant; not Works, as the Fruit and Testimony of Faith. There is a Concurrence of Works, but not by way of Causality, but Order; God will first justify, then sanctify, then ⟨p. 5⟩