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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.
(3.) It is a Spiritual Body, either for Agility, caught up into the Air to meet the Lord, not clogged as now. Or rather, because more disposed for spiritual Uses, for the Enjoyments and Employments of Grace. Here it is a natural Body, a great Clog to us; it is not a dexterous Instrument to the Soul: we are not in a Capacity to bear the new Wine of Glory: there it is made more capacious, as wide Vessels, to contain all that God will give out. The Disciples fainted at Christ's Transfiguration, Mat. 17.6. And when the Disciples heard it, they fell on their Faces, and were sore afraid. We cannot receive such large Diffusions and Overflowings of Glory as we shall then have; every strong Affection, and raised Thought doth overset us, and causeth Ecstasy and Ravishment; eminent Objects overwhelm the Faculty. But there it is otherwise, God maketh out himself to us in a greater Latitude, and we are more able to bear it.
(3.) It is a Spiritual Body, either for Agility, caught up into the Air to meet the Lord, not clogged as now. Or rather, because more disposed for spiritual Uses, for the Enjoyments and Employments of Grace. Here it is a natural Body, a great Clog to us; it is not a dexterous Instrument to the Soul: we are not in a Capacity to bear the new Wine of Glory: there it is made more capacious, as wide Vessels, to contain all that God will give out. The Disciples fainted at Christ's Transfiguration, Mat. 17.6. And when the Disciples heard it, they fell on their Faces, and were sore afraid. We cannot receive such large Diffusions and Overflowings of Glory as we shall then have; every strong Affection, and raised Thought doth overset us, and causeth Extasy and Ravishment; eminent Objects overwhelm the Faculty. But there it is otherwise, God maketh out himself to us in a greater Latitude, and we are more able to bear it.
2dly. For the Blessedness of the Soul, which is the Heaven of Heaven. Our Happiness is called the Inheritance of the Saints in Light: