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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.
Use 2. To press you to glorify Grace. This is the Glory God expects from you; Ephes. 1.6. To the Praise of the Glory of his Grace, wherein he hath made you accepted in the Beloved. If an Artificer show you a curious Piece of Workmanship, he expects to be praised for his Skill. A Wrestler that hath foiled his Adversary, expects to be praised for his Strength, not for his Beauty, that is not a proper Praise. A King in his Royal Gifts expects to be praised for his Magnificence. So, suitably, the Lord (who doth all things freely, and according to the motion of his own Will) expects to be praised for his Grace; therefore you should be always echoing out, Grace, Grace, Zech. 4.7. and admiring the Dispensations of God's Love. It is a sure sign a Man hath received no Benefit by Grace, if his Heart be not stirred up to praise Grace; certainly he that is a Partaker of it, must needs be most affected with it. Let us see a little, what cause we have to praise God above the Angels, and above other Men.
Vse 2. To press you to glorify Grace. This is the Glory God expects from you; Ephes. 1.6. To the Praise of the Glory of his Grace, wherein he hath made you accepted in the Beloved. If an Artificer shew you a curious Piece of Workmanship, he expects to be praised for his Skill. A Wrestler that hath foiled his Adversary, expects to be praised for his Strength, not for his Beauty, that is not a proper Praise. A King in his Royal Gifts expects to be praised for his Magnificence. So, sutably, the Lord (who doth all things freely, and according to the motion of his own Will) expects to be praised for his Grace; therefore you should be always ecchoing out, Grace, Grace, Zech. 4.7. and admiring the Dispensations of God's Love. It is a sure sign a Man hath received no Benefit by Grace, if his Heart be not stirred up to praise Grace; certaialy he that is a Partaker of it, must needs be most affected with it. Let us see a little, what cause we have to praise God above the Angels, and above other Men.