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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
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2. It may be meant of the extinction of their vain Hopes and foolish Confidence, and false Peace, which is grounded upon their outward Profession and formal Practice of external Duties; thus we read that the hope of the wicked shall be as the spiders web, Job 8.14. curiously woven, but gone with the turn of the Besom: so Job 11.20. The hope of the wicked shall be as the giving up of the Ghost: No more hope of them than of a mans Life that is giving up the Ghost; or with pains and gripes; which is not only to be meant of the hope, or the continuance of their prosperous Condition in the World, but of heavenly happiness; there is a groundless expectation of that, the Apostles expression intimateth it, Rom. 5.5. And hope that maketh not ashamed: The Hope of Temporaries will at length deceive them in their greatest need, and leave them ashamed. As Absaloms ⟨p. 48⟩Mule left his Master hanging on an Oak; so will their Hopes fail them, and their pretences vanish.
2. It may be meant of the extinction of their vain Hopes and foolish Confidence, and false Peace, which is grounded upon their outward Profession and formal Practice of external Duties; thus we read that the hope of the wicked shall be as the spiders web, Job 8.14. curiously woven, but gone with the turn of the Besome: so Job 11.20. The hope of the wicked shall be as the giving up of the Ghost: No more hope of them than of a mans Life that is giving up the Ghost; or with pains and gripes; which is not only to be meant of the hope, or the continuance of their prosperous Condition in the World, but of heavenly happiness; there is a groundless expectation of that, the Apostles expression intimateth it, Rom. 5.5. And hope that maketh not ashamed: The Hope of Temporaries will at length deceive them in their greatest need, and leave them ashamed. As Absaloms ⟨p. 48⟩