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A26793	A funeral sermon preached upon the death of the Reverend and Excellent Divine Dr. Thomas Manton, who deceas'd Octob. 18, 1677 by William Bates ... ; to which is now added, the last publick sermon Dr. Manton preached.	Bates, William, 1625-1699.; Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1110; ESTC R11400	38,335	122

Qualifications are not easily to be interpreted till they evidence and manifest themselves by their powerful Influence and multiplied Acts therefore we must give diligence that we may be found in him of peace without spot and blameless 1 Pet. 3.4 Surely you should do all your Works order all your Actions as Men that shall be judged for them Jam. 2.12 Matth. 12.36 Consider what will be comfortable in the last Reckoning and how things will appear in that Day I know God's Mercy and Faith in the Blood of Christ will be the chiefest ground of your Comfort But you must make your Qualification more explicit A free Pardon through the Mercy of God and the Merit and Intercession of him that redeemed you is your great Encouragement but yet you must hold on in the way of Holiness that it may stead you in your greatest need All do not rise to the Judgment of Absolution but some to the Judgment of Condemnation therefore you must make it evident that you are of the former number Rom. 8.1 2. To be Humble by the knowledg and consideration of God and your selves 1. Humility becometh us with respect to God The Throne of Grace is a Throne still and though we have great liberty and boldness by Christ yet we must come humbly There is an everlasting distinction between the Creature and the Creator and you must accordingly address your selves Not as the Pharisee that came to challenge a Debt but as the Publican that came to emplore Mercy Luke 18.10 11. He that had a lowly Opinion of himself was most acceptable to God 2. With respect to your selves God's Children need to be spared in their best Actions Mal. 3.17 I will spare them as a Man spares his own Son that serves him Nehem. 13.22 Remember me O my God concerning this also and spare me according to the greatness of thy Mercy He speaks this when he had procured God's Ordinances to be duly observed He pleadeth no Merit before God but desires rather to be spared for he was conscious of his own many Failings 3. The strictness of your Rule Psal 19.12 Who can understand his Errors Cleanse thou me from secret Faults The Multitude of Errors that we know and the multitude of them we know not should keep us humble 3. It presseth you to Thankfulness From first to last Mercy supplies all our Needs The Throne of Grace was erected for this purpose that we might have Mercy when we need it most Heb. 4.10 Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace to help in a time of need All our Qualifications come from Grace 1 Chron. 29.14 For all things come of thee Luke 19.16 Not my Industry but thy Pound not his own Industry but his Masters Talent Gal. 2.20 Not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God 1 Cor. 15.10 Not I but the Grace of God which was with me Cast your Crowns of Excellency at the Lambs Feet Rev. 4.10 Let him have all the honour for you have all from him and all should be to him All the Benefits we expect from God come not for our Righteousness Dan. 9.18 but for this great Mercy Deut. 9.4 5. Say not in thy Heart for thy Righteousness the Lord hath brought thee in to possess the Land It is the Mercy of God that sets the Crown upon your Heads at last FINIS Page 17 line 14 and 15 for they read we Page 34 line 4 after mixt read with Some Books printed for and sold by Brab Aylmer at the 3 Pigeons over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil THe Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ Or Discourses wherein is shewed how the wisdom Mercy Justice Holiness Power and Truth of God are glorified in that great and blessed Work By William Bates D. D. In Quarto Considerations of the Existence of God and of the Immortality of the Soul with the Recompences of the Future State To which is now added the Divinity of the Christian Religion proved by the Evidence of Reason and Divine Revelation For the Cure of Infidelity the Hectick Evil of the Times By William Bates D. D. In Octavo Sermons preached upon several Occasions by Isaac Barrow D. D. late Master of Trinity-Colledg in Cambridg and one of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary In Octavo The Reconcileableness of God's Prescience of the Sins of Men with the Wisdom and Sincerity of his Counsels Exhortations and whatsoever means he uses to prevent them In a Letter to the Honourable Rob. Boyl Esq To which is added a Postscript in Defence of the said Letter By John How M. A. sometime Fellow of Magdalen-Colledg Oxon. In Octavo