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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. Strong Faith. Reason saith it may be, Faith saith it shall be. Divine Justice must have a solemn Triumph, Conscience is afraid of it. Our Reward may be delayed, but it cannot stand with the Justice of God, that it should be abolished and taken away. There is Confusion in the World: Dives flowed with Ease and Plenty, when Lazarus was rough-cast with Sores. We need to be awed with Shame, as well as Fear. Faith saith he will come, we have his Word for it: as unlikely things have come to pass that have been foretold. Were the old Believers deceived that expected his coming in the Flesh? That a few Fishermen should preach the Gospel to all Nations? this is already done. Christ is contracted with us now, he will come to marry us; he went not away upon Discontent: He that loved us so as to as to come from Heaven to Earth to take our Nature, will he not come in Glory? We have of his Spirit, and we enjoy his Ordinances as a Memorial till he comes, and we have many Love-tokens sent us as a Pledge that he will come.
1. Strong Faith. Reason saith it may be, Faith saith it shall be. Divine Justice must have a solemn Triumph, Conscience is afraid of it. Our Reward may be delayed, but it cannot stand with the Justice of God, that it should be abolished and taken away. There is Confusion in the World: Dives flowed with Ease and Plenty, when Lazarus was rough-cast with Sores. We need to be awed with Shame, as well as Fear. Faith saith he will come, we have his Word for it: as unlikely things have come to pass that have been foretold. Were the old Believers deceived that expected his coming in the Flesh? That a few Fishermen should preach the Gospel to all Nations? this is already done. Christ is contracted with us now, he will come to marry us; he went not away upon Discontent: He that loved us so as to as to come from Heaven to Earth to take our Nature, will he not come in Glory? We have of his Spirit, and we enjoy his Ordinances as a Memorial till he comes, and we have many Love-tokens sent us as a Pledg that he will come.
2. Longing Desires. Our Hearts should even spring and leap within us when we hear of Christ's coming. Thus the Believers of the Old Testament, how did they rejoice to hear of a Messiah to come?