A51846:768
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.
(4.) God doth in this world give the greatest Blessings to those that do most eminently glorify him; therefore signal Faithfulness is eminently rewarded in the World to come; as God promiseth to make a Covenant with Phinehas, because he was zealous for God, to make an atonement for the People, Numb. 25.13. This the rather holdeth good, because the Rewards of the Old Testament were a kind of Figure of Eternity.
(4.) God doth in this world give the greatest Blessings to those that do most eminently glorifie him; therefore signal Faithfulness is eminently rewarded in the World to come; as God promiseth to make a Covenant with Phineas, because he was zealous for God, to make an atonement for the People, Numb. 25.13. This the rather holdeth good, because the Rewards of the Old Testament were a kind of Figure of Eternity.
(5.) In the Punishment the•e are degrees, therefore in the Reward God will punish men differently, more or less according to the rate of their sins: we read of [Greek or Hebrew], more tolerable: So he will reward men more or less according to the different degrees of their faithfulness: So Mat. 11.21, 22. It shall be more tolerable for Tire and Sidon in the day of Judgment, than for you. So Luk. 12.47, 48. we read of many Stripes, and few Stripes. 'Tis true, the Reward is not of debt; yet there is an Equity observed in his Bounty.
(5.) In the Punishment the•e are degrees, therefore in the Reward God will punish men differently, more or less according to the rate of their sins: we read of , more tolerable: So he will reward men more or less according to the different degrees of their faithfulness: So