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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. There is the Perfection of Knowledge. All the Faculties must be satisfied before we can be happy, especially the Mind, which is the noblest Faculty, and that which maketh us Men. There is a natural Inclination to Knowledge, and the Soul taketh a great deal of Contentment in the Contemplation of any Truth; Prov. 24.13, 14. My Son, eat thou Honey, because it is good; and the Honey-comb, which is sweet to thy Taste. So shall the Knowledge of Wisdom be unto thy Soul, when thou hast found it. Right and clear Thoughts of God breed a rejoicing; Psal. 19.10. More to be desired are they than Gold, yea, than much fine Gold; sweeter also than the Honey, and the Honey-comb. A Man given to Pleasures hath no such choiceness of Delight: Therefore this is no small part of our Happiness in Heaven to have more Light and Knowledge of God, and of his Ways. We shall know many Mysteries ⟨p. 121⟩of Salvation, that now we are ignorant of; as the Nature of God, Psal. 17.15. As for me, I shall behold thy Face in Righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy Likeness. The Union of the two Natures in the Person of Christ, John 17.24. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my Glory which thou hast given me. Our Union with Christ, and by Christ with God, John 14.20. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. The course of God's Decrees and Providences for our good, 1 Cor. 13.12. Now I know in part, but then shall I know, even as also I am known: that is, we shall be able to see how the unchangeable Counsels of God for our Salvation have been carried on, through all the Passages of the present Life, to bring us safe to the heavenly State. These are the Deeps of God; and now there is a Darkness on the Face of these Deeps. The Church is but a Grammar-School; Heaven is an University. We shall have better Eyes, and other Light: here Prophecy is but in part, but there our Intuition is immediate.