A51846:407
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.
To evidence this unto you, consider these Propositions:
1. That between Christ and Believers there is a mutual Tie, consent and obligation each to other; which may be notably represented by the Marriage Covenant, Psa. 45. and Isa. 45.5. and elsewhere: There is a living Relation between Christ and them, beyond what is between him and others; a relation not only notional and imaginary, but is really transacted between them, as between two parties in the Marriage Covenant: so Cant. 2.16. My Beloved is mine, and I am his: Both the parties are mutually, explicitly, and formally engaged, and contracted to one another; Christ to us as Head, we to him as Members of his Mystical Body; as 'tis real, so 'tis near, they twain shall be one flesh, we one Spirit, 1 Cor. 6.17. He that is joined to the Lord, is one Spirit: Whole Christ is ours, we are or should be altogether his, as full of Kindness and Love, Eph. 5.25, 26, 27. Zeph. 3.17. And 'tis indissoluble, the Marriage knot remaineth inviolable for ever. I will betroth thee to me for ever, Hos. 2.19.
1. That between Christ and Believers there is a mutual Tye, consent and obligation each to other; which may be notably represented by the Marriage Covenant, Psa. 45. and Isa. 45.5. and elsewhere: There is a living Relation between Christ and them, beyond what is between him and others; a relation not only notional and imaginary, but is really transacted between them, as between two parties in the Marriage Covenant: so