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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
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(2.) They ingeminate it, to show the Ardency of their desires, and earnestness to have Christ for their Lord. Now first or last every knee shall bow to Christ; they are forced to fly to him now in their extremity and pressures of misery. Though men will not come to Christ for Grace, yet they will come to him for Glory. Now they cannot come because busied about something else, Luk. 14.18, 19, 20. indeed will not come, Joh. 5.40. And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life: But then 'tis all Lord, Lord. Oh how fain would they own Christ, and be owned by him: But alas their Repentance cometh too late, their desires too late, their tears too late; 'tis all forced by their extremity, Job 27.9. Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? An Hypocrite would not much care if he were heard in the times of peace, and the affluence of outward enjoyments; but then when he would fain flatter God into an hearing, God rejecteth him. In extremity they prize mercy above a thousand Worlds; but all will not do, the Door is shut.
(2.) They ingemminate it, to shew the Ardency of their desires, and earnestness to have Christ for their Lord. Now first or last every knee shall bow to Christ; they are forced to fly to him now in their extremity and pressures of misery. Though men will not come to Christ for Grace, yet they will come to him for Glory. Now they cannot come because busied about something else, Luk. 14.18, 19, 20. indeed will not come, Joh. 5.40. And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life: But then 'tis all Lord, Lord. Oh how fain would they own Christ, and be owned by him: But alas their Repentance cometh too late, their desires too late, their tears too late; 'tis all forced by their extremity, Job 27.9. Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? An Hypocrite would not much care if he were heard in the times of peace, and the affluence of outward enjoyments; but then when he would fain flatter God into an hearing, God rejecteth him. In extremity they prize mercy above a thousand Worlds; but all will not do, the Door is shut.