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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. As for our own Hearts. He breaketh the Yoke, and sets the Will at Liberty, and maketh us free for God. Rom. 6.17. But God be thanked, ye were the Servants of Sin, but ye have obeyed from the Heart that form of Doctrine which was delivered to you. It was a willing Bondage, but now we are made a willing People; then our Consent was voluntary, now our Resignation is so too. There are indeed some Relics of Corruption and Opposition left; there are inward Monuments of the Fall as well as outward, as there are some grudgings of a Disease after a Cure; but in Heaven all is perfect, and even now there is not a willing Subjection, but a Resistance made to Sin.
2. As for our own Hearts. He breaketh the Yoke, and sets the Will at Liberty, and maketh us free for God. Rom. 6.17. But God be thanked, ye were the Servants of Sin, but ye have obeyed from the Heart that form of Doctrine which was delivered to you. It was a willing Bondage, but now we are made a willing People; then our Consent was voluntary, now our Resignation is so too. There are indeed some Relicks of Corruption and Opposition left; there are inward Monuments of the Fall as well as outward, as there are some grudgings of a Disease after a Cure; but in Heaven all is perfect, and even now there is not a willing Subjection, but a Resistance made to Sin.
Use 1. To exhort us to Thankfulness to our Redeemer. Remember your former Bondage; it is a woeful Captivity to be under Sin. Those that are under Sin, are under the Curse of the Law, and the Tyranny of the Devil; we could have no boldness with God as a Father, nor look him in the Face; the Law is against us, God is the Judg, Satan the Jailer, our own Consciences an under-Keeper. Our Fears of Death, Judgment and Hell, are a part of our Bondage: But now what cause have we to bless God? Rom. 8.1. There is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Then to be under the Power of Sin, is a woeful Bondage, to be at the beck of every Lust and carnal Suggestion. Men rejoice in their Bondage, they think there is no such Life as to live at large, and to do as we list; but the more liberty we take in Sin, the greater Slavery; the Work is Drudgery, and the Reward is Death. Sin hath reigned unto Death,