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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
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Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.
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away Religion that the want may make us more sensible of the worth of it 5. It bringeth a Scandal and ill report on God in the World Therefore he standeth upon his vindication Micah 6.3 4 5. O my People what have I done unto thee And wherein have I wearied thee Testifie against me For I brought thee up out of the Land of Egypt and redeemed thee out of the house of Servants and I sent before thee Moses Aaron and Miriam Oh my People remember now what Balak King of Moab consulted and what Baalam the Son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. That strangers receive him not is not so bad but that a People acquainted with him should cast him out after trial God calleth upon the Mountains and strong foundations of the Earth who keep still their obediential Subjection to their Creatour to witness against the ingratitude and stupidness of his People What injury have we found in God vers 2. Hear O ye mountains the Lords controversy and ye strong foundations of the Earth for the Lord hath a controversy with his People and he will plead with Israel 1. Vse We must neither build the walls of Iericho again nor as much as in us lyeth suffer others to build them Every one in his place is to hinder the work If Religion were uncertain it were another matter But did Christ come to establish the works of the Devil If Joshua saith cursed be he before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this City Jericho If Paul said Gal. 1.8 If an Angel from Heaven Preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed If others bestir themselves and by clancular and base artifices go to build these Walls again We should be the more Zealous for God Micah 4.5 For all People shall walk in the Name of his God and we will walk in the Name of our God But what must we do 1. Let us not only profess the true Religion but come under the Power of it The heart is best established by Grace The byas of mens corrupt hearts doth easily prevail against the light of their minds Few are corrupted in opinion but that are first false at heart The regenerate have advantages above other men 1 John 2.20 Ye have an unction from the holy one and know all things Most rotten opinions in the World are against the gust and sense of the new Nature But on the other side Men soon lose their zeal for truth that are addicted to a worldly sensual life Therefore see that Christ's Kingdom be set up in our hearts Luk. 17.21 The Kingdom of God is within you And that there we build not again the things we have destroyed Gal. 2.18 After we have devoted our selves to God we must not fall off from him till Christ's Kingdom be set up in our hearts we shall never sincerely care for his interests in the world For all carnal men seek their own things Men may bustle for a while for the Interest of their several Factions and Opinions but have not a true pure zeal for Christ's Kingdom 2. Let us pray That will do much Christ hath taught us to pray for the coming of his Kingdom Matth. 6.10 Thy Kingdom come David in his penitential Psalm could not forget the welfare of the Church when so deeply concerned as to his own particular for the recovering of his own peace Psal. 51.18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem Walls of Sion not of Iericho or Babylon It is God's interest spread it before him 3. Be thankful to God for these deliverances Prayer gets blessings but thankfulness keepeth them For God is careful to preserve them to such who count it a benefit and are mindful of it We have manifold cause to bless God 1. For former deliverance out of the House of Bondage so early 2. That he hath so often defeated the attempts of those who would bring us back thither 3. For the good we have many years injoyed under the Reformed Religion which God hath blessed to the converting strengthening and comforting many a precious Soul 4. For continuing still the liberty of the Gospel and means of Grace under a Protestant King 5. For the quiet we now injoy when other parts of Christendom are are in a combustion we are untouched and injoy safety We are querulous and apt to complain but all things reckoned we have much more cause to give thanks 4. Let such deliverances as this inkindle our Love and Zeal to that Religion which God hath owned and defended Partly because when men are perswaded of the Truth such Providences as these are so many attestations to it Psal 41.11 By this I know that thou favourest me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me Partly because God will spue those out of his mouth that are neither hot nor cold Partly because Zeal discourageth the Factours and Abettours of the Kingdom of darkness The Fear of the People restrained the Pharisees 5. Prize the means of Grace and incourage them Iericho's Walls fell by the blast of the Rams-horns This Kingdom falleth by the Preaching of the Gospel 2 Thes. 2.8 Whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of his mouth Whoever hinders that promotes the Devils Kingdom 2 Cor. 4.4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them Owls fly in the dark This Kingdom is maintained by Darkness Blindness and Ignorance of the Truth 6. Let us not give incouragement by our Divisions to our adversaries The more we labour for Unity the more we Establish Religion Rom. 16.17 Mark them which cause Divisions and Offences contrary to the Doctrin which ye have Learned and avoid them When Passengers in a boat fall a quarreling and pushing one another they endanger the sinking of the boat When Christ's Army is scattered Antichrist will prevail Keep up the common Christianity it may be peaceful endeavours signifie nothing in a factious and divided â— time yet we must Unite every one in the things that are right and owned by God Jam. 3.17 The wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaecable Provided we touch no unclean thing Here we must separate 2 Cor. 6.17 Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you 7 Recommend Religion by an holy Life Partly because gross sins under the Profession of a Reformed Religion provoke God to remove our Candlestick from us Partly because with all understanding Beholders the Fruits of Love Peace and Holiness will justifie your Religion Matth. 11.19 Wisdom is justified of her Children 8. Practise the Vertues contrary to the Vices of the opposite Kingdom Theirs is a Bloody Religion ours a Meâ—k
to convince them of his being the Messiah In Carnal and Wicked Men there is not only a neglect of Christ but an hatred of Christ Partly because from neglect the passage is easie to contempt and hatred partly because their Hearts being beâ—â—owed elsewhere they have no affection to him that would reduce and reclaim them Ioh. 3.19 This is the condemnation that light is come into the World and Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil and partly because they count him as one that condemneth that course of Life which they affect Iob. 3.20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved 4. The manner of expressing their hatred They sent a Message after him This must be understood with respect to the Parable Therefore this Message they sent after him is nothing else but the Persecution of the Christian Faith and the Disciples that professed Christs name which is as it were an open bidding defiance to Christ in Heaven a sending a Message after him The Apostle Paul saith of the Jews 1 Thes. 2.15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all Men. 1. The Crime which is wilful refusal of subjection to Christ We will not have this Man to rule over us and here 1. The thing refused is his Reign Where Christ cometh he will be Lord and Soveraign His kingdom is that administration which requireth Spiritual obedience from us this the licentious World cannot endure 2. The manner of refusing 't is wilful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we will not They alledge no lawful reason but wilfully and contumaciously reject his Government And so it taxeth the obstinacy of the Jews standing out unreasonably against the Faith Doct. That 't is the Spiritual Kingdom of Christ which is most opposed by the Carnal World The Jews disclaimed him from being their King their whole carriage towards him and his Messengers speak this language We will not have this man to reign over us When he was present they contemned and slighted his person calling him this man by way of contempt yet in the Parable he is represented as a Nobleman and Heir of a Kingdom when absent and gone to receive a Kingdom they abused his Messengers the rebellious World maketh defection from Christ because he is out of sight they will not be controuled by an invisible King But it was not the sin of the Jews onely but of the Gentiles also for why did the Gentiles rage against the Lord and his anointed Psal. 2.3 Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us All the business of the rebellious World is to cast away Christs Yoke to dissolve the bonds of Loyalty and Obedience to him I will prove 1. That Christ hath a Kingdom 2. That in all reason this Kingdom should be submitted unto 3. What moveth and induceth Men so much to dislike his Kingly office I. That Christ hath a Spiritual Kingdom for all things concur here which belong to a Kingdom here is a Monarch which is Christ a Law which is the Gospel subjects which are penitent believers rewards and punishments Eternal Life and Eternal Torment 1. Here is a Monarch the Mediator whose Kingdom it is Originally it belongeth to God as God but derivatively to Christ as Mediatour Psal. 2.6 I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion Phil. 2.10 11. That at the name of Iesus every knee should bow of things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth And that every Tongue should confess that Iesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father This Kingdom which is exercised by a Redeemer doth not vacate or make void our duty to God no this new dominion is not destructive of the former but accumulative that is it doth not abolish the power and right which God hath to govern that continueth still and will continue as long as Man receiveth his Being from God and the continuance of his being by daily providence and preservation but this is superadded to the former Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father the right of governing is still in God but the actual administration is by Christ. 2. There are subjects Before I tell you who they are I must premise that there is a double consideration of subjects some are subjects by the grant of God others are subjects not only by the grant of God but their own consent by divine donation all things are put into the hands of Christ and under the power of the Son of God and our Redeemer so no Creature is exempted from his dominion no not the Devils themselves though revolters and rebels against God Eph. 1.22 And hath put all things under his Feet and given him to be Head over all things to the Church Whether they will or no they are bound to his Absolute Dominion and Sovereign Authority and so all Men are subjects of Christs Kingdom partly by divine obligation bound to be so and partly by his over-ruling providence they are forced to submit to his disposing will there is a passive submission to his power though not a voluntary subjection to his Laws but of this we speak not now The other sort is of those who are subjects by consent who willingly give up themselves to the Redeemer to be saved upon his terms 2 Cor. 8.5 But first gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the Will of God And so the subjects of this Kingdom are penitent Believers Devils and Wicked Men are his Subjects whether they will or no but all Christs people are his by a voluntary subjection and consent or yield up themselves to him by Covenant Now these I call penitent Believers because both Faith and Repentance is necessary to our entrance into his Subjection 1. Repentance that we may lay down our former Hostility and so enter into Confederation and Covenant with Him Therefore often preaching Repentance is called Preaching the Kingdom of God Mat. 4.17 From that time Iesus began to Preach and to say Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Mark 1.14 15. Iesus came into Galilee Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God And saying The time is fulfilled the Kingdom of God is at hand Repent ye and believe the Gospel 2. Faith is required for receiving of Christ is made Equivalent with believing John 1 12. To as many as received him to them gave he power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believe in his Name Now what is receiving of Christ To entertain him to the end for which he was sent of God or in short to own him as Lord and King as is explained by the Apostle Col. 2.6 As ye have therefore received Christ Iesus the Lord. So walk in him 3. The Law of Commerce between this Sovereign and these