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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.
First, They have not a Sufficiency for themselves and us too: Christ hath a fullness out of which you may receive enough, John 1.16. Of his fullness we receive grace for grace. There is plenitudo Fontis, & plenitudo Vasis; The Fullness of a Fountain, and the Fullness of a Vessel: The fullness of a Vessel is lessened and abated the more you take out of it: the Creature is wasted by giving, but a fountain is ever flowing, and overflowing, it keepeth its fullness still, though it affordeth to others. God saith to Moses, Numb. 11.12. I will take of the Spirit that is upon thee, and put it ⟨p. 50⟩upon them. The words seem principally to intend as if his own Gifts and Abilities were given to them, to help bear a part in the burden of the Government.
First, They have not a Sufficiency for themselves and us too: Christ hath a fulness out of which you may receive enough, John 1.16. Of his fulness we receive grace for grace. There is plenitudo Fontis, & plenitudo Vasis; The Fulness of a Fountain, and the Fulness of a Vessel: The fulness of a Vessel is lessened and abated the more you take out of it: the Creature is wasted by giving, but a fountain is ever flowing, and overflowing, it keepeth its fulness still, though it affordeth to others. God saith to Moses, Numb. 11.12. I will take of the Spirit that is upon thee, and put it ⟨p. 50⟩upon them. The words seem principally to intend as if his own Gifts and Abilities were given to them, to help bear a part in the burden of the Government.
Secondly, In point of Power; they have no power to transfuse and put over their Righteousness to another: As a man cannot divide and part his Life between him and another. But Christ who liveth in us, and is spiritually united to us, he can impart his Grace and Righteousness.