A51847:114
Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
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.
Let me a little open these, before I come to observe any thing.
I. For the Parties concerned; Unto you first. Why was the first Offer of Christ made unto the People of the Jews? For sundry Reasons. Partly,
I. For the Parties concern'd; Unto you first. Why was the first Offer of Christ made unto the People of the Iews? For sundry Reasons. Partly,
1. Because they were the only Church of God for that time, and the People that were in visible Communion with him. And God hath so much respect for the Church, that ⟨p. 45⟩they shall have the Refusal, and the Morning-Market of the Gospel. And whatsoever Dispensations of Grace are set on foot shall be first brought to them: He hath showed his Statutes unto Jacob; (Psal. 147. 19.) He hath not dealt so with other Nations.
1. Because they were the only Church of God for that time, and the People that were in visible Communion with him. And God hath so much respect for the Church, that ⟨p. 45⟩they shall have the Refusal, and the Morning-Market of the Gospel. And whatsoever Dispensations of Grace are set on foot shall be first brought to them: He hath shewed his Statutes unto Iacob; (Psal. 147. 19.) He hath not dealt so with other Nations.