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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.
4. Many are ready, but think themselves unready: It concerneth them to study Gospel Grounds of Comfort and Peace; if they can endure the Touch-stone, though not the Balance. Where there is a sincere bent of heart to please him, there is a Law of Liberty, Jam. 2.12. a Law of Liberty, not for the carnal, but the sincere; not a Law of Trial, but of Gospel liberty.
4. Many are ready, but think themselves unready: It concerneth them to study Gospel Grounds of Comfort and Peace; if they can endure the Touch-stone, though not the Balance. Where there is a sincere bent of heart to please him, there is a Law of Liberty, Jam. 2.12. a Law of Liberty, not for the carnal, but the sincere; not a Law of Tryal, but of Gospel liberty.
We now come to the Third thing in the Text: And the Door was shut. The shutting the door noteth the Impossibility of getting our Condition altered, when the day of Grace and Trial is once over. There is a twofold Door.
We now come to the Third thing in the Text: And the Door was shut. The shutting the door noteth the Impossibility of getting our Condition altered, when the day of Grace and Tryal is once over. There is a twofold Door.
1. Janua Misericordiae ad Ignoscendum, the door of Christs Pity and Mercy to returning sinners, Mat. 7.7. Ask, and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. And