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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.
Answ. (2.) For Death. This was the primary Effect of Sin, yet it remaineth; Gen. 2.17. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. But the Curse of the Law is become a Blessing of the Gospel; Death is ours, 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the World, or Life, or Death, &c. all are yours. Adam might have lived here happily for ever, but Christ hath provided a better place for us; there is a deep Gulf, which cannot be passed but by Death; our present Earthly Nature is not fit for that happy State, 1 Cor. 15.50. Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption. If Christ could have contented himself with giving us an Earthly Paradise, Death had not been necessary. That State in the Garden was an innocent and happy, but an Earthly State: These Bodies of ours that need Meat and Sleep, would have sufficed for the Earthly Garden; but we expect a greater Benefit, and therefore we must be contented with the Way and Passage. Sense and Reason telleth us, that these Bodies which we now carry up and down, are not fit for that State; we must lay what we received from Adam in the Grave, that when it is purged and renewed, we may be like to Christ. The Grain liveth not, except it die; the Shed and old House is pulled down, that God may raise a more glorious Structure. If all Believers should be wrapped up into Heaven, and changed, Miracles would be multiplied without need. It is no Punishment to lose our Corruption and Mortality.
Answ. (2.) For Death. This was the primary Effect of Sin, yet it remaineth; Gen. 2.17. In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. But the Curse of the Law is become a Blessing of the Gospel; Death is ours, 1 Cor. 3.22. Whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the World, or Life, or Death, &c. all are yours. Adam might have lived here happily for ever, but Christ hath provided a better place for us; there is a deep Gulf, which cannot be passed but by Death; our present Earthly Nature is not fit for that happy State,