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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.
The State of the visible Church is here represented: And Observe,
1. This Parable is not spoken of the Corrupted Members of degenerate Churches, but speaketh what shall fall out in the Churches not defiled with the Whoredoms of the World: There are some Churches that have turned the Government of Christ into a temporal Domination, and their Worship into a mass of Paganish or Heathenish Rites and Superstitions, and place all their Glory, not in excellency of Gifts and Graces, but pomp of Living and external splendour, and make Christianity look like a Temporal worldly thing, calculated only for this Life; of those Christ speaketh not here, something may be intimated of them in the former Parable, but here he speaks of a reformed Church; not the Church in her pollution and defection, but a Church in her right Constitution. Papists will be counted Christians, who may be rejected by Christ at his coming; they have so corrupted his Worship, Discipline and Doctrine. Nay, but Christ speaketh here of those that live under the dispensations of purer Christianity, some will be found true Believers, others common Professors: even among the Members of a reformed Church, that make Profession of the Purity of the Gospel, all will not be found such as may abide the day of Christs appearing in Judgment: In Abraham's Family there was an Ishmael as well as an Isaac, in Christ's a Judas, and in the Apostles time some were Enemies to the Cross of Christ, that yet took the Profession of Christ upon them, Phil. 3.18.
1. This Parable is not spoken of the Corrupted Members of degenerate Churches, but speaketh what shall fall out in the Churches not defiled with the Whoredomes of the World: There are some Churches that have turned the Government of Christ into a temporal Domination, and their Worship into a mass of Paganish or Heathenish Rites and Superstitions, and place all their Glory, not in excellency of Gifts and Graces, but pomp of Living and external splendor, and make Christianity look like a Temporal worldly thing, calculated only for this Life; of those Christ speaketh not here, something may be intimated of them in the former Parable, but here he speaks of a reformed Chruch; not the Church in her pollution and defection, but a Church in her right Constitution. Papists will be counted Christians, who may be rejected by Christ at his coming; they have so corrupted his Worship, Discipline and Doctrine. Nay, but Christ speaketh here of those that live under the dispensations of purer Christianity, some will be found true Believers, others common Professors: even among the Members of a reformed Church, that make Profession of the Purity of the Gospel, all will not be found such as may abide the day of Christs appearing in Judgment: In Abrahams Family there was an Ishmael as well as an Isaac, in Christ's a Judas, and in the Apostles time some were Enemies to the Cross of Christ, that yet took the Profession of Christ upon them,