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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.
I answer, 1. We must so maintain God's Goodness, as still to keep up his Sovereignty, and right of Dominion. Man had power, which was lost by his own default; but God doth not lose his Right, though Man hath lost his Power: Their Impotency doth not dissolve their Obligation. A Drunken Servant is bound to the Duty of a Servant still: 'Tis against all reason, the Master should lose his right to command, by the Servants default. A prodigal Debtor that hath nothing to pay, yet is liable to be sued for the debt without injustice. God contracted with us in Adam, and his obedience was not only due by Covenant, but by Law, and immutable right; not by positive Law only, or Contract. And therefore he hath a right to demand Obedience, as the fruit of Original Righteousness.
2. 'Tis harsh, men think, to answer for Adam's fault, to which they were not conscious and consenting▪ But every man will find an Adam in his own heart; the Old Man is there wasting away the relics of natural light and strength; and shall not God challenge the debt of Obedience from a proud, prodigal Debtor? We are found naked, yet we think our selves clothed; poor, yet we think our selves rich, and to have need of nothing: Therefore God may admonish us of our Duty, demand his right to convince us of our Impotency, and that we may not pretend we were not called upon for what we owe him. Man is prodigal; we spend what is left, lose those relics of Conscience and moral Inclinations which escaped out of the ruins of the fall.
2. 'Tis harsh, men think, to answer for Adam's fault, to which they were not conscious and consenting▪ But every man will find an Adam in his own heart; the Old Man is there wasting away the relicks of natural light and strength; and shall not God challenge the debt of Obedience from a proud, prodigal Debtor? We are found naked, yet we think our selves cloathed; poor, yet we think our serlves rich, and to have need of nothing: Therefore God may admonish us of our Duty, demand his right to convince us of our Impotency, and that we may not pretend we were not called upon for what we owe him. Man is prodigal; we spend what is left, lose those relicks of Conscience and moral Inclinations which escaped out of the ruines of the fall.