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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.
USE, Oh then be Espoused to Christ! Otherwise he will not come as a Bridegroom, but as a Judge. For Motives,
VSE, Oh then be Espoused to Christ! Otherwise he will not come as a Bridegroom, but as a Judge. For Motives,
1. Consider your Necessity; there is a deep necessity lieth upon you, you are undone for ever if you are not married to Christ: The Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 7. if a Woman can live without an Husband, she doth well, if she marrieth not; But now you are undone for ever, if you have him not; you are liable to the Wrath of the Eternal God. The Apostle saith, Rom. 7.4. That all those are dead to the Law, who are married to Christ: that must be done necessarily.
1. Consider your Necessity; there is a deep necessity lyeth upon you, you are undone for ever if you are not married to Christ: The Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 7. if a Woman can live without an Husband, she doth well, if she marryeth not; But now you are undone for ever, if you have him not; you are liable to the Wrath of the Eternal God. The Apostle saith, Rom. 7.4. That all those are dead to the Law, who are marryed to Christ: that must be done necessarily.
First now, What is it to be dead to the Law, but to see our selves miserable, and undone for ever, and Impotent, and no way able to help our selves? The Law which is written upon every mans Conscience, is there represented as an hard and cruel Husband, that requireth an hard task to do, but affordeth no strength at all to do it: Therefore it bindeth us over to Death and the Curse. The Sense of the Law being in-bred in the Conscience, and Natural to us, cannot be extinguished; but will return with the more Violence: Well then the Law suggesteth what we should do, threateneth us if we do it not; and Conscience telling us we have not done it, this is a continual Grief and Vexation to us, and a man is kept under fear of Death and Hell all his days.