A51840:913
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.
1. In regard of God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Every Person in the God-head, in the dispensation of Grace, hath a distinct personal Operation; Election is ascribed to the Father, Redemption to the Son, and effectual Application to the Holy Ghost. Now every one of these Operations respects Holiness: Election, Ephes. 1.4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World, that we might be holy, and without blame before him in Love. Redemption, Ephes. 5.25, 26. Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water by the Word. Sanctification, 2 Thess. 2.13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, through Sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the Truth. It is for the Honour of every Person, that their Intention may not be frustrate, and chiefly upon this ground, because by this means they would justify and honour their personal Operation to the World. Those that are chosen by the Father, must be of a choice Spirit: Christ will not be the Head of an ulcerous Body; he will not be like Nebuchadnezzar's Image, whose Head was of fine Gold, his Breast and his Arms of Silver, his Belly and his Thighs of Brass, his Legs of Iron, his Feet part of Iron, and part of Clay, Dan. 2.32, 33. A beautiful Head upon a Negro's Body, is monstrous. We are Vessels formed and set apart for the Master's use: Those that are under his forming, come new out of the Forge. Unclean Vessels can never be used to any good purpose, unless they be washed and sweetened. They are to be looked upon as God's Choice, Christ's Purchase, and the Spirit's Charge. Or if you will have it in other Relations, they are God's Children, Christ's Members, and the Spirit's Temples: God's Children must resemble their Father; Christ's Members must be like their Head; and the Holy Ghost will not dwell in a defiled Temple.
1. In regard of God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Every Person in the God-head, in the dispensation of Grace, hath a distinct personal Operation; Election is ascribed to the Father, Redemption to the Son, and effectual Application to the Holy Ghost. Now every one of these Operations respects Holiness: Election,