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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.
(4.) From an Abode in the Palace of Heaven. Revel. 22.15. Without shall be Dogs and Sorcerers, and Whoremongers, and Murderers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lie. If the Pavement of Heaven is glorious, what will the Place it self be? And from this glorious Place they are banished.
(4.) From an Abode in the Palace of Heaven. Revel. 22.15. Without shall be Dogs and Sorcerers, and Whoremongers, and Murtherers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lie. If the Pavement of Heaven is glorious, what will the Place it self be? And from this glorious Place they are banished.
Secondly, This utter Darkness implieth positively a State of Woe and Misery, most remote from this Blessedness: For as they are shut out of the Palace of Heaven, so they are cast into the Prison of Hell, where all is dark, without hope of ever cummin out more. 2 Pet. 2.17. To whom the Mist of Darkness is reserved for ever. Hell is a Region upon which the Sun shall never shine: They know they shall never be reconciled to God, nor their Punishment ended, or lessened: Their Worm shall never die, their Fire shall never be quenched, Mark 9.44. They can never hope to be admitted into God's Presence more. There are many Ups and Downs in a Christians Experience: God hideth his Face sometimes, that he may show it afterwards the more gloriously. The Church prayeth, Psal. 80.19. Turn again, and cause the Light of thy Countenance to shine upon us, and we shall be saved. But this is an everlasting Darkness. God doth, as it were, by Chains hold them under everlasting Torments. 'Tis a Curse that shall never be reversed; a comfortless Life that shall never have an end. Men might lose the Face of God, if they were annihilated; but the Souls of Men and Women do not go to nothing, or die as their Bodies; but subsist in a dolesome miserable State of Darkness, and in the Place of everlasting Imprisonment; where the Devils, and damned Spirits torment one another. All here are kept safe, without any possibility of escaping; here God holdeth them in everlasting Chains.