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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.) This Trust is committed to Servants, not to Strangers or Freemen who are at their own dispose; so that from the quality of the Persons receiving, there is an Argument and obligation upon them. I may desire another to take a trust, who may refuse me; but those under command must do as their Lord would have them. Now thus are we to Christ, who hath an absolute right in us, and both made us, and bought us.
(3.) The Argument is still more binding, if there be a formal Covenant and Promise on their part, that they will faithfully perform this trust. Now there is a Covenant between God and us: I will be your God, and you shall be my people. In that Covenant we bind our selves to seek his glory, and to do his people good. As we take God, whole God to be ours, so we give up our selves, and all that is ours to him, to be for his use and Service. In this Covenant the altera pars paciscens is an inferior. Though there be a mutual interest, yet there cannot be such an Interest in God, as God hath in us: God hath not only an interest in us, but a dominion over us, which an Inferior cannot have over a Superior; so that we are Gods more fully than he can be ours. Now a trust accepted and broken afterwards, involveth us in the greater Crime. I am Gods, and will be Gods, and would I could do more for his glory; as a Christian in general, as a Husband, or Wife, or Father, or Child, or Servant, I will more honour God in my place.
(3.) The Argument is still more binding, if there be a formal Covenant and Promise on their part, that they will faithfully perform this trust. Now there is a Covenant between God and us: I will be your God, and you shall be my people. In that Covenant we bind our selves to seek his glory, and to do his people good. As we take God, whole God to be ours, so we give up our selves, and all that is ours to him, to be for his use and Service. In this Covenant the altera pars paciscens is an inferiour. Though there be a mutual interest, yet there cannot be such an Interest in God, as God hath in us: God hath not only an interest in us, but a dominion over us, which an Inferiour cannot have over a Superiour; so that we are Gods more fully than he can be ours. Now a trust accepted and broken afterwards, involveth us in the greater Crime. I am Gods, and will be Gods, and would I could do more for his glory; as a Christian in general, as a Husband, or Wife, or Father, or Child, or Servant, I will more honour God in my place.