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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.
The History that concerns this passage, begins at the 8th verse. In the whole you may take Notice; I. Of the Occasion. II. Of the Carriage of the Saints upon it.
THe History that concerns this passage, begins at the 8th verse. In the whole you may take Notice; I. Of the Occasion. II. Of the Carriage of the Saints upon it.
I. In the Occasion I observe,
1. That Paul was now at Caesarea in Philip's House. ver. 8. Philip was one of those that was scattered and driven out of his dwelling by Paul's Persecution, Acts 8. 4, 5. and now he received him into his own House. Philip, that was injured by Paul a Persecutor, is easily reconciled with Paul a Convert. 'Tis an ill office to rake in the filth which God hath covered, and it argueth some envy at the Divine Grace to upbraid Men with sins committed before Conversion. Former miscarriages and Injuries should be forgotten. If Christ hath taken them into his Bosom; we should not be strange to them.
1. That Paul was now at Cesaria in Philip's House. ver. 8. Philip was one of those that was scattered and driven out of his dwelling by Paul's Persecution, Acts 8. 4, 5. and now he received him into his own House. Philip, that was injur'd by Paul a Persecutor, is easily reconciled with Paul a Convert. 'Tis an ill office to rake in the filth which God hath covered, and it argueth some envy at the Divine Grace to upbraid Men with sins committed before Conversion. Former miscarriages and Injuries should be forgotten. If Christ hath taken them into his Bosom; we should not be strange to them.