A51848:522
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…
Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added, three other distinct sermons / by Dr. Manton.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1685
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.
4. Of whom; Of her Children. The Children of Wisdom are the Professors of it; those who are begotten by God, by the Word of Truth, James 1. 18. and are willing to attain the end, by the ways and means wherein God affordeth it: These are Wisdom's Children, begotten, bred up, and instructed by her; 'tis an Hebraism, as Children of Corah, Children of Light, Children of this World, and the like; the Professors and Followers of the Gospel.
4. Of whom; Of her Children. The Children of Wisdom are the Professors of it; those who are begotten by God, by the Word of Truth, Iames 1. 18. and are willing to attain the end, by the ways and means wherein God affordeth it: These are Wisdom's Children, begotten, bred up, and instructed by her; 'tis an Hebraism, as Children of Corah, Children of Light, Children of this World, and the like; the Professors and Followers of the Gospel.
The Point that I shall insist on is this;
That the Wisdom of God, leading Men to Salvation, in the ways and means pointed ⟨p. 284⟩out in the Gospel, is and should be justified of all the sincere Professors of it.