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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51837	Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1685 (1685)	Wing M520; ESTC R33496	105,834	258

inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession The inchoate or begun deliverance is that measure of deliverance which believers enjoy now by Faith which consists of two parts Iustification and Sanctification Sanctification 1. Pet. 1.18 Tit. 2.14 Who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works When we are free from the power and weight of sin Iustification so it is in the Text and Eph. 1.7 When sin is freely pardoned and our debt cancelled and we are delivered from evil and wrath to come II. As it is a part so it is a principal part This will appear if you consider the evil we are freed from As 1. The power of the Devil is destroyed All the advantage which he hath against us is as we are sinners guilty sinners before God For we are put into his hands when we have forfeited the protection of our righteous Lord but forgiveness of sins gives us a release from him Acts 26.18 When Christ came to procure it he destroyed the devils Power when we are converted we are interessed in the priviledge 2. The reign of sin is broken for sanctifying Grace is inseparable from pardoning Grace yea I will venture to say that the gift of the sanctifying Spirit is a part of our pardon executed and applyed for a part of the punishment of sin was spiritual death or the loss of Gods Image Col. 2.13 He hath quickned you together with Christ having forgiven all your trespasses When God pardoneth he sanctifieth and createth us anew that we may be fit for his service so that we are renewed by the Spirit as well as recovered out of the s●ares of the devil 3. We are eased of tormenting fears in a great measure Man can have no firm peace and comfort in his own soul while sin remaineth upon him our case is dangerous whether we be sensible of it or no because our condition is not to be valued by our sense and feeling but by the sentence of the Law of God which we have broken and violated if there be any difference in the case the more insensible we are the more miserable The generality of men indeed are senseless and careless put far away the evil day from them and so make light work of reconciling themselves to God but are they the more safe for this No if they will dance about the brink of Hell and go merrily to their execution it argues not their safety but their stupidness The thoughts of danger is put off when the thing it self is not put away but if they be serious they cannot be without trouble Rom. 1.32 Knowing the judgement of God they conclude that they that do such things are worthy of death The very light of Nature will revive many unquiet thoughts within them The justice of the supream Governour of the World will still be dreadful to them whose law they have broken and whose wrath they have justly deserved They may lull the soul asleep by the stupifying potion of carnal Delights and while Conscience is asleep please themselves with stoln waters and bread eaten in secret which is soon disturbed by a few serious and sober thoughts of the world to come God is offended and what peace can they have 4. Death is unstinged That 's the usual time when Convictions grow to the height and the stings of an awakened Conscience begin to be felt 1 Cor. 15.28 Then the thoughts of Death and Judgement to come are very terrible to them and men begin to see what it is to bear their own sins and how happy they are who are sure of a pardon 5. The obligation to Eternal punishment ceases Pardon is dissolving and loosing that obligation Now the punishment is exceeding great Hell and damnation are no vain Scare-crows Eternity makes every thing truly great the poena damni an everlasting separation from the comfortable presence of the Lord Matth. 25.41 Go ye cursed Luk. 13.27 Depart ye workers of iniquity When God turned Adam out of Paradise his case was very sad but God took care of him in his Exile made him Coats of skin gave him a day of Patience afterwards promised the seed of the woman who should recover the lapsed estate of mankind intimated hopes of a better Paradise That estate therefore is nothing comparable to this for now man is stripped of all his comforts sent into an endless state of Misery whence there is no hopes of ever changing his condition So for the poena sensus the pain Mark 9.44 Where their worm never dieth and their fire is never quenched The worm is the worm of Conscience reflecting on past folly and disobedience See here a man may run away from the rebukes of Conscience by many shifts sleeping sporting distracting his Mind with a clutter of business but there not a thought free but is always thinking of slighted means abused mercies wasted time the offenses done to a merciful God and the curse wherein they have involved themselves the fire is the wrath of God or these unknown pains that shall be inflicted on body and soul which must needs be great when we fall into the hands of the living God! If a little mitigation a drop to cool your Tongue be thought a great matter oh what a blessedness is it to be freed from so great an evil Perhaps you coldly entertain the offer of a pardon now but then to be freed from wrath to come oh blessed Jesus 1 Thes. 1.10 2. The good depending on it Luk. 1.77 To give us the knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins Eternal life dependeth on it for you are not capable of enjoying God till his wrath be appeased As all evil was introduced by sin so all happiness by pardon This is an initial blessing which maketh way for the rest VSE Of Exhortation To perswade you to seek after this benefit All of us once needed it and the best of us till we are wholly freed from sin still need it 1. We all of us once needed it for we are not onely criminal persons liable to condemnation but actually condemned in the sentence of Gods law Ioh. 3.18 He that believeth not is condemned already Now should not a condemned man make means to be pardoned and should not we accept of Gods terms especially when there is but the slender thred of a frail life between us and execution He that securely continues in his sins despiseth both the curse of the Law and the grace of the Gospel Oh consider nothing but a pardon will serve the turn not forbearance on Gods part not forgetfulness on yours 1. Not forbearance of the punishment on Gods part God may be angry with us while he doth not actually strike as the Psalmist saith Psal. 7.11 12 13. God is angry with the wicked every day if he turn not he will whet his sword He hath bent his bow and will make it ready