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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.
SERMON VIII.
MATTH. XXV. v. 10. And while they went to buy, the Bridegroom came, and they that were ready, went in with him to the Marriage, and the Door was shut.
Three things are here remarkable: 1. The coming of the Bridegroom, while they went to buy. 2. The Entering in, or admission of those that were ready, into the Marriage Chamber. 3. The shutting of the Door, to exclude the rest.
THree things are here remarkable: 1. The coming of the Bridegroom, while they went to buy. 2. The Entering in, or admission of those that were ready, into the Marriage Chamber. 3. The shutting of the Door, to exclude the rest.
For the First of these, their going to buy must be interpreted according to the scope of the Parable; and so it signifieth their unreadiness and unpreparedness for Christs coming; they were to seek of Grace, when they had most need to use it: In Parables things are said to be done in the day of Judgment, which are done in order to, or with respect unto that day; not that men do go and buy Oil then, &c. I might observe from hence,