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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. Observe it. Men show Love when they have another's Picture about their Necks. What Love did Christ show, when he took our Natures! To see the great God in the form of a Servant, hanging upon the Cross, this is wonderful Condescension. Christ's Incarnation was a glorious Contrivance; 1 Tim. 3.16. Great is the Mystery of Godliness, God manifest in the Flesh. If God had not revealed it, it would have been Blasphemy for us to think it; Angels stoop to see it, the Prophets studied it again, how should the Saints admire it! Among the Friars they count it a mighty Honour done to their Order, if a great Prince, when he is weary of the World, cometh and taketh their Habit, and dieth in their Habit. Certainly it is a mighty Honour to Mankind, that the Son of God should take upon him the Nature of Man, and die in our Nature; and that the Word should not only be made Flesh, but be made Sin, and made a Curse for us.
1. Observe it. Men shew Love when they have another's Picture about their Necks. What Love did Christ show, when he took our Natures! To see the great God in the form of a Servant, hanging upon the Cross, this is wonderful Condescension. Christ's Incarnation was a glorious Contrivance; 1 Tim. 3.16. Great is the Mystery of Godliness, God manifest in the Flesh. If God had not revealed it, it would have been Blasphemy for us to think it; Angels stoop to see it, the Prophets studied it again, how should the Saints admire it! Among the Friars they count it a mighty Honour done to their Order, if a great Prince, when he is weary of the World, cometh and taketh their Habit, and dieth in their Habit. Certainly it is a mighty Honour to Mankind, that the Son of God should take upon him the Nature of Man, and die in our Nature; and that the Word should not only be made Flesh, but be made Sin, and made a Curse for us.
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