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Meat out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and…Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and…
Meat out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemn day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.Meate out of the eater, or, Hopes of unity in and by divided and distracted times. Discovered in a sermon preached before the Honourable house of Commons at Margarets Westminster on their solemne day of fast, June 30. 1647. / By Tho: Manton Minister of Stoke-Newington.
London: printed by M.S. for Hanna Allen, 1647
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1. The propagation of the Gospel. 2. The Reign of Christ. 3. The unity of the Churches.
1. The propagation of the Gospel. 2. The Reigne of Christ. 3. The unity of the Churches.
1. The Gospel shall be propagated and the knowledge of it diffused far and near, that's implied in the 8th vers. Living waters shall go out from Jerusalem towards the former and latter Sea &c. That is Gospel refreshments, the doctrine and knowledge of Jesus Christ, together with plenty of gifts and graces, shall be diffused and scattered abroad among all Nations, who are here hinted in those expressions of the former and latter Sea, which allude to the watery borders of Palistina, which were the lake of Sodom, and the Mediterranean, now its usual in the Scriptures, to set out the Evangelical Church by terms proper to the Jewish Border.
1. The Gospel shall be propagated and the knowledge of it diffused farre and neere, that's implied in the 8th vers. Living waters shall goe out from Jerusalem towards the former and latter Sea &c. That is Gospel refreshments, the doctrine and knowledge of Jesus Christ, together with plenty of gifts and graces, shall be diffused and scattered abroad among all Nations, who are here hinted in those expressions of the former and latter Sea, which allude to the watery borders of Palistina, which were the lake of Sodom, and the Mediterranean, now its usuall in the Scriptures, to set out the Evangellicall Church by termes proper to the Jewish Border.
2. The next privilege of those times is in the beginning of the 9th verse, And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. Why! you will say the Lord is so always, Christ was long since inaugurated into the Kingdom, & hath for many ages actually administered it in the world: But the meaning is he shall show himself to be King, he shall be known to be King, 'tis not spoken in regard of right or actual administration, but in regard of sense and apprehension, he will show it partly by his Providence, and his own dispensations, partly by doctrinal discoveries in the Church, men shall more distinctly hold of the head,