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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.
Use 3. Is to exhort us,
1. To improve this Love. It is an Invitation to seek after God; for see what Preparations his Love hath made to recover you to Himself, and will not you be recovered? God doth not hate you, and therefore you need not flee from him as a revenging God. He so loved the World, that he gave his only begotten Son. In that capacious Expression you are not excluded, therefore exclude not your selves. And such a broad Foundation of his Mercy being laid, what may you not expect from it? 2 Cor. 5. 19. He hath procured a Remedy and Ransom; as soon as you repent and believe you shall have the Comfort of it.
2. It exhorteth us also to answer it with a fervent Love to him that hath given such a signal Demonstration of his Love to us. 1 Joh. 4. 19. We love him, because he first loved us. Men always expect to be loved there where they love, and think it hard dealing if it be not so.
2. It exhorteth us also to answer it with a fervent Love to him that hath given such a signal Demonstration of his Love to us. 1 Ioh. 4. 19. We love him, because he first loved us. Men always expect to be loved there where they love, and think it hard dealing if it be not so.