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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.
1. Reading the Word. The Words of Scripture have a proper Efficacy. The Holy Ghost is the best Preacher, therefore it is good now and then to go to the Fountain our selves; and not only to have the Word brought to us by others, but to read it our selves. As the Eunuch, Acts 8.28. when he returned from public Worship, he was reading the Scripture, and God owned it by sending him an Interpreter. Every Ordinance hath its proper Blessing, and when we use it out of Conscience, God will not be wanting. He that sent Philip to the Eunuch, will send his own Spirit to help thee, therefore read the Word. Daniel the Prophet that had the highest Visions from God, yet he studies other Prophecies, those of Jeremiah, Dan. 9.2. I Daniel understood by Books the Number of the Years, whereof the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the Prophet. Mark, the Study of the Scripture is a Duty that lies upon those that are most gifted, and most eminent for Parts. Nay, the Prophets and holy Men of God read over again, and studied their own Prophecies; 1 Pet. 1.10. Of which Salvation the Prophets have enquired, and searched diligently, who prophesied of the Grace that should come unto you. And if they that were guided by an infallible Spirit, immediately inspired by the Holy Ghost, if they thought fit to read, and read again and again their own Prophecies, and inquire diligently into the Salvation they spoke of; much more is it our Duty to read the Word: None is above the Ordinance of Reading: That's one Ordinance which nourisheth Godliness.
1. Reading the Word. The Words of Scripture have a proper Efficacy. The Holy Ghost is the best Preacher, therefore it is good now and then to go to the Fountain our selves; and not only to have the Word brought to us by others, but to read it our selves. As the Eunuch, Acts 8.28. when he returned from publick Worship, he was reading the Scripture, and God owned it by sending him an Interpreter. Every Ordinance hath its proper Blessing, and when we use it out of Conscience, God will not be wanting. He that sent Philip to the Eunuch, will send his own Spirit to help thee, therefore read the Word. Daniel the Prophet that had the highest Visions from God, yet he studies other Prophecies, those of Ieremiah,