PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton — Volume 3
Thomas Manton · 314,970 words · 315 reading sections
Section 301
[3]. Check vain fears of death and hell, Satan, lusts, and the world. Alas ! there is no more spirit left in these things ; they are like the Canaanites which were stung by God's hornets before the Israelites conquered them : ' I will send my hornets before you.' Fear possessed them, and then they were easily vanquishe…
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[ix] Pray to him that he would show himself Lord and King, that he might rule among his enemies. Christ hath taught us to say, Thy kingdom come : desire that he would powerfully and with his own arm work salvation. Christ's conquest is founded on his prayers and intercessions, therefore help on his kingdom. You know wh…
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3. The end and intent, why he would pour out himself like water. ISA. LIII. 12.] THE FIFTY-THIRD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH. 475 It was to die for you : ' He poured out his soul to death.' Simeon suffered liimself to be bound for his brethren, Gen. xlii. 24. Lot offered his daughter, and the man in Judges })rostitutes his dau…
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[2.] In 5'our duties and respects to men. In all offices of love and service, do it willingly ; for such was the love of the Lord Jesus to you : 1 Peter v. 2, ' Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;' especially if it be to instruct and teach them, and …
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1 A misprint, I presume, for Leo ; the allusion being, I doubt not, to a paragraph in Leo the Great's fourth sermon on the Lord's Passion, with the title Latronum in Cruce Si^nijicatio, the substance of which is very much as in the text. — Ed. 478 A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION UPON [ISA. LIII. 12. side. But these are all ba…
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I come now to the third circumstance, that which is called the conflict of Christ, and that is the cause both of his death and the ignominy of it : ' He bare the sins of many.' This is a circumstance very often repeated in this prophecy, and often mentioned by the pro- phet in this chapter ; so that I need dwell the le…
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Oh, consider it is borne by Jesus Christ. As Aaron was to bear the iniquity of the holy things of the children of Israel, Exod. xxviii. 38, so Christ will bear the sins of your duties. His soul was heavy unto death, Mat. xxvi. 38. A little before the showers there is a gloomi- ness and sad blackness ; so there was upon…
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I shall propose these arguments : — 1. Christ died for no more than are elected. 2. The death of Christ is usually restrained in scripture to such a number and such a company that shall be saved. 3. Christ must needs save all that he intended to save. 4. All those to whom Chiist intended the merit of his sufferings…
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Let these things then persuade you to consider whether you are of the number of those whose sins Christ bare in his body. But you will say, How shall we know whether we be of that number ? I answer in these propositions : — 1. Your first care must not be to look to God's election. Hidden things belong to God ; man m…
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From the former observe, that Christ prayed for his persecutors. 486 A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION UPON [ISA. LIII. 12. Our translation inclinetli to this sense, as reading in the praeter tense : 'He made intercession for the transgressors;' whereas the original will bear, ' He shall make intercession for the transgressors,…
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We learn three things in this instance, which we cannot reflect upon without the shame of our own faces. This mirror will kill like the basilisk when we look on it, 1. Not to retaliate, hate, curse, revile, and pursue injuries with in- juries. We cannot come to this : 1 Peter ii. 23, ' Who when he was reviled, reviled…
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ISA. LIII. 12.] THE FIFTV-THIRD CHAPTER OF ISAIAH. 489 man to imitate the superior beings, God and angels. Children, you know, when they first come to have the use of their reason, their pride is to imitate the actions of grown men. Why should not we then imitate those of God? Nay, further, you have the pattern of the…
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4. How he prayed. He pleadeth for them : ' Forgive them, for they know not what they do.' You see he pitcheth upon the most favour- able construction that could be made of their fact ; it is a bad fact, but they are poor ignorant people. Arguments in prayer imply earnest- ness ; and Christ useth such an argument as mig…
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Now, that Jesus Christ is so, appeareth by many places, which show this is his work now in heaven : Rom. viii. 34, ' It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us ; ' Heb. vii. 25, * Who liveth for ever, to make intercession for us.' …
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3. He undertaketh for us, and promiseth obedience to God the Father in our behalf ; therefore he is said to be our surety, Heb. vii. 22. He promiseth that we shall subscribe to the conditions of God, and pass over into the power of the covenant. 4. He pvayeth and intercedeth, and maketh his request for us, as being se…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.