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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. Of Trial. Whether we are made Partakers of the Grace of God in the Gospel? Have we these Teachings and Arguings? Many can endure to hear that Grace bringeth Salvation, but that it teacheth us to deny Ungodliness, there they flinch. Men would have us offer Salvation, and preach Promises; but when we press Duty, they cry out, this is a hard saying. The Cities of Refuge under the Law, were all Cities of the Levites, and Schools of Instruction; to note, that whoever taketh Sanctuary at Grace, meeteth Instruction, it is no benefit to thee else. In the general, doth it persuade you to make a willing Resignation of your selves to God? Rom. 12.1. I beseech you therefore, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that ye present your Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable Service. Every time you think of Mercy, do ye find some Constraint in this kind? More particularly,
Vse 2. Of Trial. Whether we are made Partakers of the Grace of God in the Gospel? Have we these Teachings and Arguings? Many can endure to hear that Grace bringeth Salvation, but that it teacheth us to deny Ungodliness, there they flinch. Men would have us offer Salvation, and preach Promises; but when we press Duty, they cry out, this is a hard saying. The Cities of Refuge under the Law, were all Cities of the Levites, and Schools of Instruction; to note, that whoever taketh Sanctuary at Grace, meeteth Instruction, it is no benefit to thee else. In the general, doth it perswade you to make a willing Resignation of your selves to God? Rom. 12.1. I beseech you therefore, Brethren, by the Mercies of God, that ye present your Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable Service. Every time you think of Mercy, do ye find some Constraint in this kind? More particularly,
1. Doth it press you to deny Lusts? Ezra 9.13, 14. Seeing thou hast given us such Deliverance as this, should we again break thy Commandments? Doth it recoil upon you?