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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.
SERMON XXI.
TITUS II.14. —And purifying unto himself a peculiar People, &c.
IN this latter Branch I observed, Christ's Act, and then his Aim: His Act, he gave himself: His Aim and Intention; And here is the privative part of Deliverance, To redeem us from all Iniquity. This I have finished.
I come to the Positive part, And purify to himself a peculiar People, zealous of good Works. He never communicates his Blessings, where he doth not bestow his Grace: He did not only free us from Hell, but from Sin. It is well for the Godly, that Christ came to take away the proud and carnal Heart, to take away Corruption and Iniquity, which is their greatest Eye-sore. But this is not all, there is a positive Blessing; Christ did not only come to deliver us from Sin, but communicate Grace, That he might purify to himself a peculiar People.
I come to the Positive part, And purify to himself a peculiar People, zealous of good VVorks. He never communicates his Blessings, where he doth not bestow his Grace: He did not only free us from Hell, but from Sin. It is well for the Godly, that Christ came to take away the proud and carnal Heart, to take away Corruption and Iniquity, which is their greatest Eye-sore. But this is not all, there is a positive Blessing; Christ did not only come to deliver us from Sin, but communicate Grace, That he might purify to himself a peculiar People.