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Sermons preached

Name: Sermons preached
Author: Thomas Manton

Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...

Thomas Manton 1620–1677London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678

[8], 412 p. · 142k words · Wing M536 · ESTC R7578

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SERMON XVI.

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.

[ Earlier:827–842 of 1,178

:827p. 292

First, The rise and beginning of all is God's unconceivable Love; God so loved the World. Where observe,

:828p. 292–293

1. The Object, the World. ⟨p. 293⟩2. The Act, Loved. 3. The Degree, So loved.

:829p. 293¶1

1. The word by which the Object is expressed, is the World, which noteth Mankind in its corrupt and miserable State; 1 Joh. 5. 19. The whole World lies in Sin. The World is an Heap of Men, who had broken God's Law, forfeited his Love and Favour; they neither loved nor feared God, but were unthankful and unholy; yet this World God loved.

1. The word by which the Object is expressed, is the World, which noteth Mankind in its corrupt and miserable State; 1 Ioh. 5. 19. The whole World lies in Sin. The World is an Heap of Men, who had broken God's Law, forfeited his Love and Favour; they neither loved nor feared God, but were unthankful and unholy; yet this World God loved.

:830p. 293¶2

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Sermons preached

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the mere Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the meer Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the mere Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.

That the Beginning and first Cause of our Salvation is the meer Love of God. The outward Occasion was our Misery, the inward moving Cause was God's Love.