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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.
(2.) By right of Redemption. Rom. 14.9. For to this end Christ both dyed and rose again, that he might be Lord of dead and living. And 1 Cor. 6.20. Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your Bodies and Souls which are his. This giveth him a new Title to us, though the former ceased not, but will continue. Whilst Man receiveth his Being from God by Creation, and the continuance of his Being by Preservation; 'tis a power commutative, not destructive; 'tis superadded to the former, and is more comfortable and beneficial to us, as well as it bindeth us more firmly to God, wholly to be disposed, guided and ordered by him at his will.
(2.) By right of Redemption. Rom. 14.9. For to this end Christ both dyed and rose again, that he might be Lord of dead and living. And 1 Cor. 6.20. Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorifie God in your Bodies and Souls which are his. This giveth him a new Title to us, though the former ceased not, but will continue. Whilst Man receiveth his Being from God by Creation, and the continuance of his Being by Preservation; 'tis a power commutative, not destructive; 'tis superadded to the former, and is more comfortable and beneficial to us, as well as it bindeth us more firmly to God, wholly to be disposed, guided and ordered by him at his will.
Thirdly, This power as Owner is entire and absolute, Rom. 11.36. For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. We receiving our whole Being from God, 'tis all at his dispose: All humane propriety is derived, limited, and respective, because we in being and operation depend upon another; and therefore Man cannot be sui juris, at his own dispose, and Lord of his own actions. He hath Principium & Finem, a Principle upon which he dependeth, and an End to which he