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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.
1. There we come to meet the Bridegroom in a way of Grace: The Marriage Covenant between God Incarnate, and his espoused Ones, is here celebrated and solemnized. The Sacrament is a Transfiguration of the last Marriage Supper; to ascertain us what entertainment we shall have at the Day of Judgment, when the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, shall be made ready, and clothed with fine Linen, Rev. 19.23. and then be received in to the Nuptial Feast. Blessed are they that are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. All is now prepared in this Duty.
1. There we come to meet the Bridegroom in a way of Grace: The Marriage Covenant between God Incarnate, and his espoused Ones, is here celebrated and solemnized. The Sacrament is a Transfiguration of the last Marriage Supper; to ascertain us what entertainment we shall have at the Day of Judgment, when the Bride, the Lamb's Wife, shall be made ready, and cloathed with fine Linnen, Rev. 19.23. and then be received in to the Nuptial Feast. Blessed are they that are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. All is now prepared in this Duty.
2. In some respect there should be a Serious Preparation for the one, as for the other; as we would prepare to dye, or prepare to meet Christ the Judge. Christ did not wash his Disciples feet when he took them with him to Tabor, to his Transfiguration, but when he took them with him at his last Supper, Joh. 13.7. Surely, to rush upon the presence of the Bridegroom with a perfunctory, careless, common frame of spirit, is a dangerous thing. When a People come hand over head, prepare themselves slightly, pray slightly before they come, and live carelessly and negligently; they slight the Bridegroom, and wrong themselves; strengthen themselves ⟨p. 22⟩in sin, rather than against it. Methinks it looks like going to the Day of Judgment: Here we receive the Pledges of our Salvation or Damnation.