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A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton…
A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton in two parts : the first containing XXVII sermons on the twenty fifth chapter of St. Matthew, XLV on the seventeenth chapter of St. John, and XXIV on the sixth chapter of the Epistle of the Romans : Part II, containing XLV sermons on the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and XL on the fifth chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians : with alphabetical tables to each chapter, of the principal matters therein contained.
London: printed by J. Astwood for Jonathan Robinson, 1684
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.
And for this cause God shall send them strong Delusions, that they should believe a Lie: That thy all might be damned, who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in Unrighteousness. To poison Fountains was the highest way of Murder, to roil the Waters of the Sanctuary, to mangle Christ's Ordinances, is a Crime of a high Nature. The Jews that rejected Christ in so clear Light of Miracles, Joh. 8.24. Christ saith, If you believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your Sins; it maketh the Judgment the more heavy upon them. Others to whom Christ is less perspicuously revealed, shall have a more tolerable Judgment: For the clearer the Revelation of the Truth is, the more culpable is the Rejection or Contempt of it. For there is no Man that heareth of Christ's Coming into the World, suffering for Sinners, and Rising again from the Dead, and Ascending into Heaven; but is bound more diligently to enquire into it, and to receive and embrace this Truth. Carnal Christians, their Profession condemneth them: They are inexcusable; they deny in Works, what in Word they seem to acknowledge.
And for this cause God shall send them strong Delusions, that they should believe a Lie: That thy all might be damned, who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in Vnrighteousness. To poyson Fountains was the highest way of Murther, to royle the Waters of the Sanctuary, to mangle Christ's Ordinances, is a Crime of a high Nature. The Jews that rejected Christ in so clear Light of Miracles, Joh. 8.24. Christ saith, If you believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your Sins; it maketh the Judgment the more heavy upon them. Others to whom Christ is less perspicuously revealed, shall have a more tolerable Judgment: For the clearer the Revelation of the Truth is, the more culpable is the Rejection or Contempt of it. For there is no Man that heareth of Christ's Coming into the World, suffering for Sinners, and Rising again from the Dead, and Ascending into Heaven; but is bound more diligently to enquire into it, and to receive and embrace this Truth. Carnal Christians, their Profession condemneth them: They are inexcusable; they deny in Works, what in Word they seem to acknowledge.