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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44565	One hundred select sermons upon several texts fifty upon the Old Testament, and fifty on the new / by ... Tho. Horton ...; Sermons. Selections	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1679 (1679)	Wing H2877; ESTC R22001	1,660,634	806

are likewise diversities of Truths and Doctrines which are occasionally to be delivered some of comfort and consolation and others of terror and astonishment And this here now present in the Text it is one amongst the rest The terror of the Lord. What 's the use which we now from hence are to make of it but accordingly to be wrought upon by it and to be perswaded of it seeing the Apostle uses this Argument whereby to perswade you therefore to comply with it that as we perswade you in regard of our endeavour as I shewed before so we may also in regard of your success and that especially upon this basis as knowing the terror of the Lord. If this business were a mere fancy a conjecture a thing of our own devising it could not have so much weight in it neither might we our selves expect such an effect and fruit of it I but because it is a matter of knowledg in regard of the apprehensions and likewise a matter of terror in regard of the object apprehended surely we cannot here come off which a slighting or neglecting of it without great prejudice to our selves I will therefore conclude this point which I am now upon with two most eminent places and Texts of Scripture in the book of the Preacher The one is in Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment And the other is in Eccles 12.13 14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole duty of man for God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it is good or whether it be evil And so now I have done with the first General part of the Text which is an account of the Ministerial Dispensations in reference to their performance in these words Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade c. The second is in reference to their acceptance in these words But we are made manifest to God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences This is added to prevent and objection which might perhaps have been made by some persons in the Church of Corinth against that which St. Paul had here spoken concerning himself and his companions and fellow-labourers in the work of the Ministry It is true indeed Paul you have told us a fair table of your self and of the rest of your brethren with what great matters you attempt to do But who thinks e're-a-whit the better of you for all this Who gives you any thanks for your labour or who gives any great credit to that which you deliver To this the Apostle answers very soberly and gravely and discreetly But we are made manifest to God and I trust also are made c. Where he gives a double account of himself as to matter of acceptance First In reference to God And secondly in reference to men as he does also in another place Act. 24.16 Herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men This was that which St. Paul was us'd to do but more particularly here in this Text. I begin with the first viz. His acceptance with God We are made manifest unto God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We had this word in the verse before though in another case and acceptation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We must all appear or be made manifest but that was a manifestation before God This here is a manifestation to him That was a manifestation of presence this here a manifestation of praise That a necessary manifestation and such as we could not avoid This voluntary and upon our own choice and desire To speak distinctly of it as it lyes here in the Text it may be taken two manner of ways Either first of all by way of Discovery Or secondly by way of Approbation There 's manifestatio notitiae and manifestatio landis as Cajetan well distinguishes Now it is not the first only but the second which is here intended and that principally about this other Here 's a Metonymie of the cause for the effect Manifestation which is the Antecedent put for approbation which is the consequent and yet if we please we may take both one and t'other and so joyn them both together that we are manifested to God that is known to him what we are and then that being so we are hereupon accepted of and approved by him And this may be made good unto us for the particulars which it reaches unto in these five following respects 1. For our Calling and Gifts We are manifest to God so we are manifest to him as we are instituted and appointed by him for so we are The Ministry it is not an humane invention a device set upon by men but it is the Ordinance of God himself It is he who is the Author of it who has ordered it and commended it to his Church it is he which has given Apostles and Prophets and Evangelists and Pastors and Teachers c. Ephes 4.11 All these they are from him and from him alone not only by his meet allowance but likewise moreover by his command Indeed whether or no the Ministry in such a particular form or constitution of Government in the Church be that which is determined and appointed by God we will not meddle with that now But that the Ministry it self is that is that there be particular persons set apart to attend this work of feeding the flock of Christ and Church of God which be has purchased with his blood as the Apostle speaks Act. 20.28 This is clear to be from God himself and the Holy Ghost is said there in particular to make them overseers of it as being he who has appointed and designed them hereunto And to make it more remarkable to us and that we may take greater observation of it there are two circumstances in it which do manifest it and sets it out more The one is that it is a part of God's gracious Covenant with his People and the other is that it is a gracious fruit and consequent of the Ascension of Christ 1. I say it is a part of God's gracious Covenant with his People as we may see in Jer. 3.15 Thus saith the Lord I will give you pastors according to mine heart which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding And so also Jer. 23.4 I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall fear no more nor be dismayed neither shall they be lacking saith the Lord. When the Lord would express and manifest his favour and good will towards his People he does it by setting Pastors over them and by sending his Ministers among them It is a part of his Covenant