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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.
In the Prosecution of this Point, I shall show, I. What Darkness there was as to the knowledge of Grace before. II. How much of Grace is now discovered.
In the Prosecution of this Point, I shall shew, I. What Darkness there was as to the knowledg of Grace before. II. How much of Grace is now discovered.
I. What a Darkness there was before the eternal Gospel was brought out of the Bosom of God. There was a Darkness both among Jews and Gentiles: In the greatest part of the World there was utter Darkness as to the knowledge of Grace, and in the Church nothing but Shadows and Figures.
I. What a Darkness there was before the eternal Gospel was brought out of the Bosom of God. There was a Darkness both among Jews and Gentiles: In the greatest part of the World there was utter Darkness as to the knowledg of Grace, and in the Church nothing but Shadows and Figures.
1. This Grace was not known in the World, only a little of it was; Psal. 33.5. The Earth is full of the Goodness of the Lord; some inferior Grace was made known to them in the Creation, and in the course of Providence, by showers of Rain, and fruitful Seasons; Grace on this side Heaven; but nothing of the Secrets of God's Bosom, of the Incarnation of God, of the Expiation of Sin by his Death, of Salvation by Faith in the Mediator; this depends not upon the Connection of natural Causes, but the free Pleasure of God: therefore the Angels knew it not till it was revealed in the Church; Ephes. 3.10. To the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in heavenly places, might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God. The Gentiles by looking into the Order of Causes, could never find it out: They might find a first Being, and the chiefest Good, but not a Christ, not a Saviour, there they sat in the shadows of Death, and did not understand nor desire Eternal Life: