A51846:935
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. As a dismal State, Cast them out into utter Darkness: That is, (1.) Shut them out of the Feast: And, (2.) Cast them into the Dungeon of Hell: There they shall be deprived of all Consolation, and Joy, and Happiness. As,
(1.) Of the Sight of God, the Company of the good Angels, and Blessed Spirits: To which Loss there is added the most inexplicable Torments of Body and Soul; which is exceeding great. And 'tis a dreadful thing to be deprived of the Light of God's Countenance, to be banished out of his Presence. The Disciples wept when Paul said, Ye shall see my Face no more, Act. 20.38. What will the Damned do, when he shall say, Depart ye cursed; as 'tis in the 41. Verse? Here in the Loss all are equal, but not in the Pain; all alike depart from God; they all lose Heavens Joys, the favourable Presence of God, and the Sight of Christ, the Company of the Blessed, and their Abode in those happy Mansions in Christ's Fathers House. Hell is a deep Dungeon, where the Sun shine of God's Presence never cometh. God is summum Bonum, the chiefest Good; and in the other World, omne Bonum, All in All: All things there ⟨p. 135⟩are immediately from God; Rewards and Punishments: Better lose all things than God: Exod. 33.15. If thy Presence go not with us, carry us not up hence.
(1.) Of the Sight of God, the Company of the good Angels, and Blessed Spirits: To which Loss there is added the most inexplicable Torments of Body and Soul; which is exceeding great. And 'tis a dreadful thing to be deprived of the Light of God's Countenance, to be banished out of his Presence. The Disciples wept when Paul said, Ye shall see my Face no more, Act. 20.38. What will the Damned do, when he shall say, Depart ye cursed; as 'tis in the 41. Verse? Here in the Loss all are equal, but not in the Pain; all alike depart from God; they all lose Heavens Joyes, the favourable Presence of God, and the Sight of Christ, the Company of the Blessed, and their Abode in those happy Mansions in Christ's Fathers House. Hell is a deep Dungeon, where the Sun shine of God's Presence never cometh. God is summum Bonum, the chiefest Good; and in the other World, omne Bonum, All in All: All things there