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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.
(1.) From the Nature of that Glory and Blessedness we expect. It standeth in Communion with God, and Conformity to him, or the Vision and full fruition of God, Psal. 17.15. 1 Joh. 3.2. Now the more holy, the more suited to this happiness, and therefore have larger measures of it; Mat. 5.8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Heb. 12.14. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. We behold his face in righteousness. Now we are more capacitated, Vessels of a larger bore: 'Tis unreasonable to imagine that clarified Souls have no more fruition of God than those that only have Grace enough to make an hard shift to get to Heaven: Sicut se habet simpliciter ad simpliciter, ita magis ad magis. Holiness singly fits to see God, and without it we cannot see him: So a little Holiness fits us to take in a little of God; the more Holiness, the more of God.
(2.) From the pleasure God taketh in his own Image: So much of the Image of God as his Creature hath, so far more amiable in the sight of God: The Lord delighteth in the Upright, Prov. 11.20. If God delighteth in them, he delighteth more in one that is more holy and upright. Thus from God Holiness we may argue, he doth not delight in the impure, Psal. 5.4. Thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickedness. He cannot so fully delight in the less pure; Psal. 18.25, 26. With the upright man thou wilt show thy self upright, with the pure thou wilt show thy self pure.