A51840:895
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. It is a Disadvantage to your selves. You cut off your own Claim, and declare you have no Interest and Share in Christ if Sin live, for he came to redeem us from Iniquity. We cannot have an Interest in any part of Christ's Redemption till this be, for all these go together: God's Anger is not appeased, the Devil's Power is not restrained; the Law's Curse is still in force as long as Sin lives. You can have no Comfort, if you be not freed from Sin; the Wrath of God is against you; and Hell is your Portion; nay, if you are not redeemed from all Sin, for he redeems us from all Iniquity. A Bird that is tied by the Leg, may make a show of escape, but it is fast enough: So though many may abstain from gross Sins, (for they that commit such, show plainly they are acted by the Spirit of the Devil) yet if one Sin remains unmortified, it enthralleth as well as many; but if it reigns in the Soul, you have no Interest in Christ.
2. It is a Disadvantage to your selves. You cut off your own Claim, and declare you have no Interest and Share in Christ if Sin live, for he came to redeem us from Iniquity. We cannot have an Interest in any part of Christ's Redemption till this be, for all these go together: God's Anger is not appeased, the Devil's Power is not restrained; the Law's Curse is still in force as long as Sin lives. You can have no Comfort, if you be not freed from Sin; the Wrath of God is against you; and Hell is your Portion; nay, if you are not redeemed from all Sin, for he redeems us from all Iniquity. A Bird that is tied by the Leg, may make a shew of escape, but it is fast enough: So though many may abstain from gross Sins, (for they that commit such, shew plainly they are acted by the Spirit of the Devil) yet if one Sin remains unmortified, it enthralleth as well as many; but if it reigns in the Soul, you have no Interest in Christ.
Object. You will say, Why should we mortify? what should we trouble our selves about this? Christ hath done all this.