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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.) 'Tis sometimes expressed with respect to the meritorious and procuring Cause, or the immediate Head and Fountain of it; and so Christ is said to live in us, Gal. 2.20. to dwell in us, Eph. 3.17. to remain in us as the hope of Glory, Col. 1.27. ⟨p. 13⟩That Christians may live the Life of Grace, they must first be united to Christ; for he liveth in us as the Head in the Members, or the Root in the Branches: We must be united to Christ, and receive influence from him as Branches from the Root. Through Faith Christ is perpetually present in Virtue, Grace and Spirit. We must first partake of Christ himself, being most strictly united to him, as Members to the Head, from whence they receive sense and motion: He taketh up a fixed and unmoveable habitation in our hearts, Joh. 14.23. not for a Visit and away; but keepeth a perpetual residence in the heart.
(2.) 'Tis sometimes expressed with respect to the meritorious and procuring Cause, or the immediate Head and Fountain of it; and so Christ is said to live in us, Gal. 2.20. to dwell in us, Eph. 3.17. to remain in us as the hope of Glory, Col. 1.27. ⟨p. 13⟩That Christians may live the Life of Grace, they must first be united to Christ; for he liveth in us as the Head in the Members, or the Root in the Branches: We must be united to Christ, and receive influence from him as Branches from the Root. Through Faith Christ is perpetually present in Vertue, Grace and Spirit. We must first partake of Christ himself, being most strictly united to him, as Members to the Head, from whence they receive sense and motion: He taketh up a fixed and unmoveable habitation in our hearts,