A51840:752
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.
They that carried their Souls to Heaven, shall now be employed to bring their Bodies out of the Grave. The holy Angels shall conduct the Souls of those that die in the Lord, to Heaven: Luke 16.22. The Beggar died, and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's Bosom. So also those Angels shall now be employed in bringing their Bodies out of the Grave. They are still serviceable to the Saints, and this is the last Office of Love they can perform to them, therefore they do it cheerfully. And to the Wicked, their Office is to force them into Christ's Presence, and to bind them up in Bundles, as Tares for the Fire, Mat. 13.40, 41. Also, the Angels have this Ministry and Service, to be employed as Witnesses; they attend now upon the Congregation, to observe your Behaviour: therefore the Apostle disputes concerning unseemly Gestures, 1 Cor. 11.10. For this cause ought the Woman to have Power on her Head, because of the Angels. They are privy to our Conversations, and able to give an Account of our Lives. In the Assemblies there are more meet than are visible, Devils meet, and good Angels likewise, to observe your Carriage, that they may give account to God. And no sooner shall the Sentence be pronounced, but it shall be executed. In a condescension to our Capacity, God is pleased to represent the Work as done by the Ministry of Angels. We can understand better the Operations of an Angel, than the Operations of Almighty God, because they are nearer to us in Being, and are of an Essence finite and limited.
They that carried their Souls to Heaven, shall now be employed to bring their Bodies out of the Grave. The holy Angels shall conduct the Souls of those that die in the Lord, to Heaven: Luke 16.22. The Beggar died, and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's Bosom. So also those Angels shall now be employed in bringing their Bodies out of the Grave. They are still serviceable to the Saints, and this is the last Office of Love they can perform to them, therefore they do it chearfully. And to the Wicked, their Office is to force them into Christ's Presence, and to bind them up in Bundles, as Tares for the Fire,