A51846:531
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.
2 Watching with respect to future Acceptation. That is pressed in other places, Mat. 24.42. Watch ye, for ye know not in what hour the Lord cometh. The ⟨p. 73⟩particular time of Christs coming is kept secret, that we may be moved at all times to prepare for it. The Lord foresaw that we would be prone to negligence and carnal security, and that the knowledge of the express time of his coming would be hurtful to us; therefore 'tis inter Arcana Imperii, among the Secrets kept in the Fathers bosom, that we might be always ready: So Luk. 21.36. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of Man: The meaning is, that we may escape the Judgments then to be poured out upon the wicked and the careless; that we may not causa cadere, that we may have a Sentence of Approbation passed in our favour. These are the two sorts of Watching pressed upon us in Scripture, the one to avoid the Snares of the Devil; the other that we may be ready for the coming of the Lord.
2 Watching with respect to future Acceptation. That is pressed in other places, Mat. 24.42. VVatch ye, for ye know not in what hour the Lord cometh. The ⟨p. 73⟩particular time of Christs coming is kept secret, that we may be moved at all times to prepare for it. The Lord foresaw that we would be prone to negligence and carnal security, and that the knowledge of the express time of his coming would be hurtful to us; therefore 'tis inter Arcana Imperii, among the Secrets kept in the Fathers bosom, that we might be alwayes ready: So Luk. 21.36. VVatch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of Man: The meaning is, that we may escape the Judgments then to be poured out upon the wicked and the careless; that we may not causa cadere, that we may have a Sentence of Approbation pass'd in our favour. These are the two sorts of Watching pressed upon us in Scripture, the one to avoid the Snares of the Devil; the other that we may be ready for the coming of the Lord.