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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.
SERMON I.
PSAL. 32. 1, 2. Blessed is he whose Transgression is forgiven, whose Sin is covered. Blessed is the Man unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity, and in whose Spirit there is no Guile.
THE Title of this Psalm is A Psalm of Instruction; and so called, because David was willing to show them the way to Happiness from his own Experience. Surely no Lesson is so needful to be learned as this, We all would be happy. The Good and Bad, that do so seldom agree in any thing, yet agree in this, A desire to be happy. Now happy we cannot be but in God, who is the Only, Immutable, Eternal, and All-sufficient Good, which satisfies and fills up all the capacities and desires of our Souls. And we are debarred from access to him by Sin, which hath made a breach and separation between him and us; and till that be taken away, there can be no converse; and Sin can only be taken away by God's Pardon upon Christ's Satisfaction. God's Pardon is clearly asserted in my Text, but Christ's Satisfaction and Righteousness must be supplied out of other Scriptures: as that 2 Cor. 5. 19. God was in Christ reconciling the World to Himself, not imputing their Trespasses to them. Where the Apostle clearly shows, that not-imputing ⟨p. 2⟩Transgressions is the effect of God's Grace in Christ. And we do no wrong to this Text to take it in here; for, the Apostle citing this Scripture,