A51848:758
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.
Doct. That the End and Reward of Faith, is the Salvation of our Souls.
I shall open the Point, by explicating three Questions.
1. What is this Salvation of our Souls? 2. What Right the Believer hath to it? 3. What is that saving-Faith which giveth us a Title to it? The last is most important.
1. What is the Salvation of the Soul? 'Tis not meant of temporal Deliverance, or an escape from Danger, as some would affix that sense upon it, but of eternal Life, or our happy Estate in Heaven: This belongeth to our whole Man, the Body as well as the Soul; but the Soul is the chief part of Man, and that which is first glorified. When Men come first into the World, first the Body is framed, and then the Soul cometh after: As we see in the Creation of Adam, first his Body was organized, and then God breathed into him the Spirit of Life. And we see it in common Generation, when the Body is first framed in the Womb, then 'tis quickened by a living Soul. This lower Region of the World is properly the place of Bodies, therefore Reason requires that the ⟨p. 38⟩