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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 was a Love to us. Christ was drawn to this Work with no other Cords but his own Bowels. It was Love that brought him out of Heaven, and Love nailed him to the Cross, and Love laid him in the Grave, and made him free among the Dead. If you ask, Upon what Errand came the Son of God out of the Bosom of the Father? I answer, Upon a Design of Love. Of what Sickness he died? I answer, Of Love; not by Constraint certainly; though he died a violent Death, it was merely by Consent; John 10.18. No Man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self. Rev. 1.5. To him that loved us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood.
1. There was a Love to us. Christ was drawn to this Work with no other Cords but his own Bowels. It was Love that brought him out of Heaven, and Love nailed him to the Cross, and Love laid him in the Grave, and made him free among the Dead. If you ask, Upon what Errand came the Son of God out of the Bosom of the Father? I answer, Upon a Design of Love. Of what Sickness he died? I answer, Of Love; not by Constraint certainly; though he died a violent Death, it was meerly by Consent; Iohn 10.18. No Man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of my self. Rev. 1.5. To him that loved us, and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood.
2. There was his Obedience to God. As Jesus Christ was God, so by one and the same Will doth the Father give Christ, and the Son give himself; for the Father's Will is his Will: they are one in Essence, therefore one in Will, and one in Operation; and what the Father doth, the Son doth, because of the Unity of Essence: John 5.19. What things soever the Father doth, these also doth the Son likewise. But this is not all, consider Jesus Christ as Mediator; so there is a Consent of Obedience to the Father, and so as the Father appoints, he presents himself as the Price and Sacrifice for Sin; Homines, non propter homines, sed propter Deum dilexit; He loved Men, not for Mens sake, but God's: The meaning is, the Goodness of the Creature is not the Cause of Christ's Love, but his Love to God; and that gives us sure ground of Hope: Christ loves us not for our own sakes but for his Father's sake.