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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.
Fourthly, The more serviceable you are for Christ here, the more Glory you shall receive in Heaven: We believe there are degrees of Glory, we read of being Ruler of many Cities, and sitting at Christs right hand and left, Mat. 20.13. The Mother of Zebedee's Children, when she asked Christ that her Sons might sit one at his right hand and the other at his left; Christ doth not deny the thing, that there were degrees of Glory, but it was to be given them for whom it was prepared of his Father.
The next thing observable in the Parable, is the going out of their Lamps; Our Lamps are going, or gone out; what is the meaning of that? sometimes the Phrase is used in Scripture, for the failing and ceasing of the wickeds happiness, or the Splendour and Glory wherein they lived in the World, as Job 19.6. The light shall be dark in his Tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him: and Job 21.17. How often is the Candle of the wicked put out: But here it must be interpreted with respect to the scope of this Parable, and so by the Lamps two things are intended.
The next thing observable in the Parable, is the going out of their Lamps; Our Lamps are going, or gone out; what is the meaning of that? sometimes the Phrase is used in Scripture, for the failing and ceasing of the wickeds happiness, or the Splendour and Glory wherein they lived in the World, as Job 19.6. The light shall be dark in his Tabernakle, and his lamp shall be put out with him: and Job 21.17. How often is the Candle of the wicked put out: But here it must be interpreted with respect to the scope of this Parable, and so by the Lamps two things are intended.