A51846:428
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 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.
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, threatneth 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.
2. Consider the Excellency of Christ, who is altogether Lovely, as to his Person and Offices, and every way suited to your necessities: As to his Person, he is God-man, able and willing to do you good; for what cannot God do? and surely he will not be strange to his own flesh: You are condemned by the Law, he is a Priest to make Atonement for you: You are ignorant of the way to true Happiness, he is a Prophet to teach and guide you; you have many Enemies and Difficulties to overcome in that way, he points it out to you; and your own flesh is weak, but he is a King to vanquish your Enemies, and to assist you with the Powerful Succours of his Spirit; he will help you to perform your Duty, in the midst of all Temptations to the contrary; For we are to serve him in Newness of Spirit,