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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.
Now give me leave to show, why it was necessary that Christ should give up himself; partly out of Love, and partly out of Obedience.
Now give me leave to shew, why it was necessary that Christ should give up himself; partly out of Love, and partly out of Obedience.
1. It was necessary that he should give up himself out of Obedience, partly that his Love might be Rational. The Lord is a God of Judgment, a wise God, and all he doth is with Reason. Now the only supreme Reason why Christ loves us, is the Will of God, and the Command of his Father. Solomon saith, Prov. 17.18. A Man void of Understanding striketh Hands, and becometh Surety in the presence of his Friend. How is that? that is, before his Friend asks or desires it: it is a Fault to be over-forward and prodigal of Favours. It is a Rational Love that is in Christ, and partly he doth it out of Obedience, to preserve a Respect to God the Father. Christ loves us for his sake, and therefore we should love God in Christ the more. And partly it is the Wisdom of God, that the Reasons of Love should lie without Man himself, and be found among the Divine Persons, because of the Father's Good-will and Command.
1. It was necessary that he should give up himself out of Obedience, partly that his Love might be Rational. The Lord is a God of Judgment, a wise God, and all he doth is with Reason. Now the only supream Reason why Christ loves us, is the Will of God, and the Command of his Father. Solomon saith, Prov. 17.18. A Man void of Vnderstanding striketh Hands, and becometh Surety in the presence of his Friend. How is that? that is, before his Friend asks or desires it: it is a Fault to be over-forward and prodigal of Favours. It is a Rational Love that is in Christ, and partly he doth it out of Obedience, to preserve a Respect to God the Father. Christ loves us for his sake, and therefore we should love God in Christ the more. And partly it is the Wisdom of God, that the Reasons of Love should lie without Man himself, and be found among the Divine Persons, because of the Father's Good-will and Command.