A51840:1319
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. LUKE XII.48. › Sermon 1SERMONS UPON St. LVKE XII.48. › 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.
5. Is it that you have many common Gifts and Graces which are denied to others? Some have great Gifts for the good of the Body Mystical. Common Christians have common Gifts, some have what others have not. Heb. 6.4, 5, 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly Gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; and have tasted the good Word of God, and the Powers of the World to come; if they shall fall away, to renew them again to Repentance, &c. compared with ver. 9. But Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany Salvation, tho we thus speak. To be nearer the Kingdom of Heaven is an advantage, and to have some common work of the Spirit as Compunction: After I was instructed, I smote upon my Thigh, Jer. 31.19. Awakening Grace, Ephes. 4.14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee Light. 2 Tim. 2.16. That they may recover themselves out of the Snare of the Devil, who are taken Captive by him at his Will. God's Reproof, Prov. 1.23. Turn ye at my Reproof; behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you. Job 36.10. He openeth also their Ears to Discipline, and commandeth that they return from Iniquity. God sanctifieth Providences to make us serious, Psal. 94.12. Blessed is the Man whom thou chastenest, and teachest him out of thy Law.
5. Is it that you have many common Gifts and Graces which are denied to others? Some have great Gifts for the good of the Body Mystical. Common Christians have common Gifts, some have what others have not. Heb. 6.4, 5, 6. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightned, and have tasted of the heavenly Gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost; and have tasted the good Word of God, and the Powers of the World to come; if they shall fall away, to renew them again to Repentance, &c. compared with ver. 9. But Beloved, we are perswaded better things of you, and things that accompany Salvation, tho we thus speak. To be nearer the Kingdom of Heaven is an advantage, and to have some common work of the Spirit as Compunction: After I was instructed, I smote upon my Thigh,