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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.
4. The Cry that is raised before his coming. Then I shall give every circumstance mentioned its due weight.
First, Of the certainty of his coming: 'Tis needful to premise that, because the efficacy of the whole Discourse dependeth upon it. Reason saith he may come, but Faith saith he will come.
First, Reason saith he may come: It argueth,
1. From the Nature of God. There is a God, and this God is just: 'Tis agreeable to his general Justice, that it should be well with them that do well, and ill with them that do evil; these Principles are out of dispute, and supposed as ⟨p. 33⟩the Foundations of all Religion: Now supposing these Principles, there must be a day or reckoning, for in the World the best go to the walls many times, and are exercised with Poverty, Disgrace and Scorn, when the wicked are full of Plenty, and live at ease,