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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.

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:830p. 293¶2

2. The Act, He loved. The Love of God is twofold, the Love of Benevolence, and the Love of Complacence.

:831p. 293¶1

(1.) The Love of Benevolence is the Pity and Compassion of God towards Man lying in Sin and Misery. This is understood in this place, as also in Tit. 3. 4. The Kindness and Love of God our Saviour towards Man appeared.

:832p. 293¶2

(2.) The Love of Complacence. […] he loveth us, when he hath made us lovely. In which Sense it is said, Psal. 11. 7. The Righteous God loveth Righteousness. Joh. 16. 27. The Father himself loved you, because ye loved me. This belongeth not to this place.

(2.) The Love of Complacence. 〈…〉 he loveth us, when he hath made us lovely. In which Sence it is said, Psal. 11. 7. The Righteous God loveth Righteousness. Joh. 16. 27. The Father himself loved you, because ye loved me. This belongeth not to this place.

:833p. 293¶3

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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.

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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.