PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 22
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294 INDEX. men, 103 ; to check our murmurings, ih. ; to encourage us in well- doing, ib. Precepts of God, esteem of, presupposeth knowledge and a right discerning, viii. 323 ; advertency or application, 324 ; is such an approbation as doth engage affection, such an affection as doth engage practice, ib. ; not a simpl…
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Why God is an enemy of, xxi. 411; what it is, 415 ; how it shows itself, ib. ; why it begins with the heart, 418 ; means to avoid, 421. Priesthood which we have by Christ concerneth our ministration in the heavenly temple, xix. 93 ; because a christian is conformed to Christ, and made like him in all things, ib. ; this…
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INDEX. 297 ' increaseth, liglit increaseth, ih. ; as grace increaseth, their love to Gi)d increaseth, and so they hate sin more, ib. ; experience maketh theia wise and provident, 90 ; they know more of the vanity of the world, ib. ; they are more acquainted with themselves, ib. ; by frequent com- munion with God they …
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profession of respect and esteem to Christ, xiii. 227. Protection, divine, set forth under the notions of a hiding-place and a shield, viii. 166 ; extends to the soul, which is in danger of Satan and his temptations, 167 ; and the body, ib. ; a hiding-place to keep us from danger, a shield to keep us in danger, 168 ; a…
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Purity and perfection of the scriptures, viii. 337. They who liate, can never love God and his ways, till their hearts be changed, viii. 487. And cleanness of heart becometh christians, xix. 195 ; they are con- secrated to the service of a holy God, ih. ; they profess the most holy faith, 196. Of life, the hope of a …
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Its place in ascertaining the way of truth, vi. 310. Tells us of the existence of God, but faith doth more assure the soul »f it, and impresseth the dread and awe of God upon our souls, vii. 214. A middle faculty, that standeth between things above and things below, and may either be debased by sense or elevated by f…
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body, ib. The nature of, explained, xvi. 251 ; how we are redeemed from the guilt of sin, 254 ; how from the power of sin, 256 : does not exclude mortification, 258. Final end of, is that we may be presented at the last day glorious in purity and holiness, xix. 487. lied Sea, the passage of, by the Israelites, a notab…
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against it, vi. 218. True, is but one, and all other ways false, noxious, and pestilent, vi. 291. None is fit to be chosen upon sound evidence but the christian, vi. 296 ; it alone revealed by God, ih. ; it notably performs all that a man would expect in a religion, and so suits the necessities of man as well as the h…
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Lieth in a sensible sight of sin and deserved wrath, xviii. 228 ; such an apprehension of God's mercy in Christ as maketh us turn to him, ib. ; a grieving for and forsaking of our sins, and giving up ourselves to his service, ib. ; encouragements to, 231, Mistakes regarding, xix. 218; not some trouble for sin while we…
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the opposites of it, ih. ; arguetli humility and trust, 444 ; means to attain, 447. Jiesistance of the devil must not be faint and cold, i. 330 ; must be a thorough resistance of all sin, ib. ; must not be for a while, but con- tinued, 331 ; arguments to persuade to, ib. ; graces that enable us in, 332. Ilesolution i…
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regeneration, ib. Difference between that of the righteous and the wicked, xx. 62 ; a self- denying believer earnest to obtain the former, 63 ; blessedness of the saints in, 64. See Saints, blessedness of, &c. Is a Avork of omnipotency, xx. 173 ; required by the justice of God, 174 ; by his unchanging covenant love, ib…
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means to treasure up wrath, iv. 407. What are true, vi. 133 ; gracious experiences or testimonies of the favour of God, ib. ; knowledge, ib. ; faith, ib. ; good works, 134; why these are riches, ib. And honour do not hurt faith in themselves where there is a fTacious O heart to manage them, xiv. 407. It is a hard …
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Or justice, the nature of it, xvi. 143 ; we should give every one his due, ih. ; do injury to no man, 144 ; make restitution, 147; bear injuries with patience, 148 ; in many cases not demand our own extreme right, ih. ; do as we would be done by, 149 ; public good to be preferred before private, ih. ; according to our …
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wherein lay the difference between, 442. Christ's death hath the true notion and full virtue of, xviii. 79 ; the new covenant made and confirmed by virtue of this, 80. Christ's, accepted of God, xix. 182 ; the greatness of his sufferings, ib. ; from the dignity of his person, ib. ; the merit of his obedience, ib. ; Go…
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316 " INDEX. Salvation, common, wherein all saints are concerned, v. 100; all chosen by the same grace, ib. ; all have the same Christ, ib. ; all equally justified by the same righteous one, ib. ; all by the same faith, ib. ; all under the same rule and direction, 101 ; all one in one mystical body, ministering suppli…
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A better evidence of God's favour than worldly comforts, viii. 416 ; a greater privilege than justification, 417. Is a setting apart by God and by ourselves, x. 411 ; a purging by degrees, and making free from sin, 412; endowing with God's image and likeness, ib. ; should be chiefly minded in prayer, ib. ; because of …
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Satan hath no power over death as a lord, but as an executioner, ii. 29G. His grand design to lessen our opinion of God's goodness, ii. 342. Sometimes dresses up sins in the form and appearance of duty, at other times represents duty in the garb of sin^ iv. 206. Hath a great hand and stroke in all sins, iv. 361 ; th…
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ScRiPTUEE Sufficient without Unwritten Teaditions, v. 485. Scripture,, not the bare words of, but the meaning, must be regarded, i. 284. Not the less to be esteemed though Satan and his agents use it, i. 287 ; what it speaks to all is to be esteemed as spoken to each particular person, ib. How to be studied, vi. 1…
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Season of receiving good to be improved, xix. 363 ; of doing good, 364. Secret, that God seeth in, is the hypocrite's fear and the saint's comfort, ix. 68. Sins, their aggravations, xv. 376. Of the Lord, with the righteous, xviii. 382 ; knowledge of his will, ib. ; direction in duty, and satisfaction in his dispensat…
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Self-will, denial of, and submission to the will of God, a duty of christians, XV. 240 ; the difficulty of, 241 ; motives and arguments to a denial of, 243 ; rules for direction and trial, 246 ; how far we are to sub- mit to the will of God in providence, 249 ; the grounds of this submission, 254 ; helps to it, 256. S…
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on Acts X. 34, 35, xviii. 405. on Acts xvii. 30, 31, xvi. 397. Sermons on Acts xxiv, 14-16, xvii. 419. Seiimon on Acts xxiv. 25, xviii. 357. on Ptomans ii. 7, xix. 14-3. £26 INDEX. Sermon on Romans iv. 18-21, xvii, 179. Seemons on Romans vi., xi. 151. on Romans viii., xi. 381. Sermon on Romans x. 5-9, xviii. 23…
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Of God, the true test of the value of life, xiv. 443 ; determined by the call of God's providence, ib. ; may as well be in a lower station as in a higher, 444. A gracious heart will not serve God with that which is little worth, xxii. 81 ; reasons, ib. ; cautions, 86. Services, in all, we must honour both the Father a…
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cast out in regard of inherency, i. 176. Its evil not lessened by the death of Christ, i. 181. God alone can pardon, i. 191 ; as the wronged party and as the supreme judge, ib. ; officers of the church can remit declaratively, 192. The greatest of evils, because it endamageth our inward man, and en- dangereth our ever…
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vi. 44. The matter of, not so much to be regarded as the manner, vi. 195. Of others, may we not speak of in any case? vi. 212; a very hard matter to do so without sin, ib. ; speak not of, but to the offender, 213 ; if at all, with tenderness and grief, ib. The power of, stands in the love of it, vi. 370. Knowledge of, …
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332 INDEX. hands, and giveth it to some vile and base thing which is set up in God's stead, ib. ; turneth the man upside down, and degradeth and depresseth him to the rank of beasts, 269 ; is burdensome as well as base, 270 ; rendereth sincerity questionable, and when it is habitual, is a sure note of a carnal state, …
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In what sense Christ is said to take away, xxi. 4 ; the means by which he takes it away, 5 ; reasons why, since Christ came to take away sin, we should not live in it, 6 ; Christ propounded in the scripture as our pattern and example, 10; what sin is, 14; how it is taken away, 15 ; what we must do that it may be taken …
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Wilful, against an express commandment, x. 341 ; against express warnings of those who wish well to our souls, ib. ; against checks of conscience, and motions of God's spirit in our hearts, ib. ; against restraints of providence, ib. All are in their own nature mortal, xi. 376 ; small, are the mother of great, and the…
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Socinians, their evil blasphemy that Christ only died by occasion of sin, not for sin, iii. 277. Sodom and Gomorrah, their sin, v. 220 ; how suffering the vengeance of eternal fire, ib. ; their destruction the world's great example, 226. Solifidians, the doctrine of the, disproved, xvii. 430. Sonship of Christ, the …
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VOL. XXII. T 338 INDEX. Speech, in giving the anatomy of wickedness in all the members of the body, the apostle (Rom. iii. 13-15) stayeth longest on the organs of throat, tongue, lips, mouth, iv. 279 ; remedies, 280; get a pure heart, ib. ; watch and guard, 281 ; seek God's help, ib. ; employ speech oftener about hol…
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Of prayer, there is a fourfold spirit worketh in prayer — the natural sj^irit of man, a carnal spirit, the new nature, and the Spirit of God, xii. 249 ; the operations of this fourfold spirit, ib. In what sense God is said to know the mind of the Spirit in prayer, xii. 251 ; why this knowledge is such a comfort and be…
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Strength, how far to be denied, xv. 226 ; to be drawn out by constant exercise, yet not to be rested in, 227. INDEX. 341 Spouse of the cliurcli is basliful, .ind will not be familiar, and communicate bis loves before company, but alone (Bernard), i. 13. Sfancarists think ordinances useless for believers, iv. 129. k…
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is patience, ii. 331. To God's will is not insensibility, ii. 335 ; but a work of the judgment, ib. ; and of the will, ib. ; grounds of, 336, To the will of God, we must pray and wait with, viii. 257 ; for the mercy itself, in what kind we shall have it, 258 ; for the time, ib. ; for the ways and means, ib. To authori…
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Taste, spiritual, object of, the' word of God, viii. 48 ; in order to taste its sweetness, there must be a sound belief of it, ib. ; serious considera- tion, 49 ; close application, ib. ; a palate qualified, a hungry con- science, ih. ; mortified affections, 50 ; a good evidence of the new nature, ib. ; gives assured k…
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Of Christ, first, wherein would have been the sin of turning stones into bread, i. 270 ; it would have been following the devil's advice, ib. ; would have implied doubt of the voice heard at his baptism, ib. ; distrust of God's fatherly providence, ib. ; would have been an act of vainglory, ib. ; Christ's answer, 272. …
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Tertidlian, the saying of, that trials were to be sought, an error, xvii. 4. Testament, the new covenant has the notion of a, xv. 475 ; all things con- cur there that belong to a testament, 476; more especially the two legacies of pardon of sin and eternal life, 478 ; this is a new testa- ment, 482 ; founded on Christ…
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Relateth to God's benefits, as praise to his excellencies, xix. 417 ; by way of commemoration, *6. ; by way of adoration, 418; in what sense to be always, 419 ; to be for common and temporal mercies, 420 ; for spiritual mercies, 421 ; for ordinary and extraordinary mercies, 422 ; for our personal mercies, and other men…
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Traditions, &\ih&!: human or divine, iii. 123; unwritten not of authority now, 129 ; all not to be rejected, 134. Trajan's testimony to the early christians (Tertullian), xiii. 383. Transfiguration, Christ's Temptation and, i. 255. Transfiguration of Christ, i. 337. Tramfig^iration of Christ a solemn confirmation o…
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Probabilities when God is about to bring, on the church, x. 368 ; after God hath laid in many spiritual comforts, ih. ; after trials and re- formations, ih. ; when reformations stick in the birth, ih. ; when there are great differences between God's own people, ib. ; when libertines and fanatical persons increase in po…
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Our profession must be kept even in lesser, viii. 323. In scripture of two sorts, the porch and the secret chambers, viii. 346, 348. The most precious will do us no good unless they be digested into love and practice, xi. 318. Trying (proving) all things is a christian's duty, xix. 295 ; every one that feareth God sh…
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Union, necessity, excellence, and utility of, ii. 73 ; seven uniting considera- tions, 74. Mystical, is of believers with Curist, the head by faith, with one another by love, x. 323 ; moral, is of believers with one another, consisting of consent in doctrine, ib. ; and a mutual agreement and concord of affection, ib. …
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with God, 397 ; as to the benefiting and profiting of others, 398. Unseen and eternal things, the man who has made them his great scope and aim can easily do and suffer anything for God, xviii. 275 ; looking upon, implieth faith, 276 ; hope, 277 ; and expectation, 278. Unwritten Traditions, Scripturk sufficient witho…
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Tra^c/i/t</«e,'?5 needed against occasions of sin, x. 398; and privy distempers of heart, 399. S5S INDEX. Watchfulness, omission of, xi. 286 ; when we growbolder with sin, and the temp- tations and occasions of it, ib. ; when we make a small matter of those corruptions which were once so grievous and intolerable, 287…
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all private complaints against others are not, 280. Wicked, certainty of their resurrection, i. 469 ; raised by Christ as a judge, not as a redeemer, ib. Their present state sad, at death worse, in hell worst, ii. 449 ; their death usually full of terror, ib. ; conscience and Satan accuse, the body curseth the soul for…
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God's, arguments to make conscience of, i. 129 ; Christ's example, ib. ; INDEX. 861 God's right, ib. ; our own incapacity, ib. ; the benefit that accrueth to us, 130. JFUi of God, motives to a more tender regard of, i. 130 ; his absolute autho- rity to command, ib. ; the equity of what he hath commanded, ib. ; to be …
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Obedience. Of the flesh acts on the understanding and the heart, xx. 10. The benefit we enjoy by, xxii. 13 ; the persons qualified to enjoy this happiness, 14 ; restores men to that life and happiness which they lost in Adam, 14. Wise, God is, v. 368 ; is only, 371 ; originally and independently, ib. ; essentially, ib…
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He that would keep, must stand at a great distance, in heart and prac- tice, from all sin, viii. 1% ; a christian must do both, ib. ; and both with the whole heart, ib. ; the one required in order to the other, 27 ; avoiding evil first in order, ib. Of God, called a light, as it shows us the right way to our desired e…
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Necessity of, to work faith, xi. 21 ; is the warrant of our faith, 22 ; is the power of God to produce it, ib. ; God has so appointed because it is most suita.ble to man's nature, ib. ; it is agreeable to his own coun- sels to try the reprobate by an outward rule and offer, wherein they have as much favour as the elect…
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Good, the reason of the sentence of absolution, x. 56 ; hence Papists in- fer their merit and causal influence upon eternal life, ib. ; answer, ih. ; it is one thing to give a reason of the sentence, another to express the cause of the benefit adjudged, ih. ; works merit not the blessing, for they are due ; they are im…
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Meaning of the word in 1 John ii. 16, xvi. 93. This present, our abode in, the only time wherein we are to discharge the duties of our heavenly calhng, xvi. 164 ; must be done speedily, earnestly, and constantly, ib. ; reasons why, 166. How Christ, as the Lamb of God, is said to take away the sins of, xviii. 486 ; ho…
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370 INDEX. Worship, reverence a special qualification of, xiv. 403 ; gesture in, ih. Duties of, how we may be said to do too much in, xv. 342 ; must not go beyond what is written, 344 ; love feasts, how far warranted, 345 ; ceremonies and gestures, how far they may be used, 346 ; how we may be said to do too little i…
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