A51840:1282
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 2SERMONS UPON St. IOHN XIV.1. › Sermon 2
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. Here is a double Object propounded. And so, before we go deeper into the Argument, we have the more Advantages, than if it were single and alone; for two is more than one. So Gen. 41.32. For that the Dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. The Object is doubled, that Faith may be more full. This double Prop for our Faith should give us double Strength in Believing, when we have God to trust in, and Christ to trust in. We that have sinned with both Hands earnestly, have a double Ground of Comfort and Hope, the infinite Mercy and Power of God, and the infinite Righteousness and everlasting Redemption of a Mediator. God alone is enough for our Happiness; there is in him abundantly more than enough to satisfy all the Capacities of the Creature: but without a Mediator, how shall we come to enjoy him? Tho there be a Sufficiency in the Object of our Happiness, yet as to the Means, something else beside this is requisite. If Man had kept innocent, one Object of Faith had been enough; but to Man fallen a Mediator is necessary: And it is an unspeakable Mercy that God hath given us his Son, that by Jesus Christ we may come to him; John 14.6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no Man cometh unto the Father but by me. And on the other side, by the Mediator Jesus Christ, we come to the Father; John 12.44. He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
2. Here is a double Object propounded. And so, before we go deeper into the Argument, we have the more Advantages, than if it were single and alone; for two is more than one. So Gen. 41.32. For that the Dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. The Object is doubled, that Faith may be more full. This double Prop for our Faith should give us double Strength in Believing, when we have God to trust in, and Christ to trust in. We that have sinned with both Hands earnestly, have a double Ground of Comfort and Hope, the infinite Mercy and Power of God, and the infinite Righteousness and everlasting Redemption of a Mediator. God alone is enough for our Happiness; there is in him abundantly more than enough to satisfy all the Capacities of the Creature: but without a Mediator, how shall we come to enjoy him? Tho there be a Sufficiency in the Object of our Happiness, yet as to the Means, something else beside this is requisite. If Man had kept innocent, one Object of Faith had been enough; but to Man fallen a Mediator is necessary: And it is an unspeakable Mercy that God hath given us his Son, that by Jesus Christ we may come to him;