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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.
2. The next Consequent is the resigning and giving up of the Kingdom to the Father. You have it described, 1 Cor. 15.24, to 28. I suppose this giving up of the Kingdom, is not taken for a resigning of his Kingly Office; for Christ still holds the Government, and wears the Crown of Honour to be the Head of the Church. But Kingdom here is put for the Subjects of the Kingdom. He shall finish the present Manner of Dispensation, and present all the Elect to God, and give them up as a Prey snatched out of the Mouth of the Lion: and this is called presenting his Spouse to God, Ephes. 5.27. That he might present it to himself a glorious Church. Christ hath shed his Blood, and washed her clean, and decked her with all the Jewels of the Covenant; and then he shall present her to God: and the Form of Surrender you have, Heb. 2.13. Behold I, and the Children God hath given me. Behold, here I am, and all thou hast given me, there is not one wanting. O what a glorious Sight will this be to see the great Shepherd of the Sheep leading his Flock into their everlasting Folds, and all the Elect following Christ with their Crowns of Glory upon their Heads, singing to the Praise of the Lamb, O Death, where is thy Sting? O Grave, where is thy Victory? &c. To see them with Harps in their Hands, triumphing thus in the Salvation of God, all Enemies gone, and the Church lodged in everlasting Habitations! Besides, consider the Acclamation and Applause of the Angels. O how should we strive to be one of this Number!
3. The next Consequent is, the burning of the World; that's described at large, 2 Pet. 3.10, 11, 12. how that Fire shall come out from God, and burn and devour all things, and melt the very Firmament. Certainly that Fire is to be taken literally, for it is opposed to Water, the first Water by which the World was destroyed. Now by this Fire I conceive the World shall not be consumed, but renewed and purged, because in the everlasting State God will have all things new; he will not only have the Bodies and Souls of the Saints new, but will have new Heavens and new Earth: for it is a deliverance from the Bondage of Corruption,