English Puritan & Reformed

Sermons Volume 2

Thomas Manton (1620-1677) · 1,222,777 words · 5435 min

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to be Loved above all things. Page ib.

What it is to Love God with all the heart. Page 163

How it is consistent with a Christian's defects. Page 163

How far we are obliged to Love God with all the heart. Page 164

How it is consistent with Love to Relations &c. Page 165

Decay of Love incident to the people of God. Page 156

What is not a Decay of Love. Page 157
What it is. Page 159
The greatness of the evil of it. Page 158
The causes of it. Page 160
The commonness of it. Page 158

Many are surprised with it that are little sensible of it. Page 158

How to prevent it. Page 161
How to recover our Decayed Love. Page 162

MAdness ; Christianity accounted Madness by the men of the World. Page 123
- Reasons of it. Page 124
- What in Christianity is accounted Madness. Page ib.
- The way of the wicked is properly Madness. Page 125
- Demonstrations of it. Page 126
Mediator ; Christ a fit Mediator. Page 220
- What Christ was to do as Mediator. Page 88
Men ; God dealeth with men by men, and the reasons of it. Page 238
Ministers are God's Ambassadors. Page 240
- Their duty as such. Page 241
- How to be received, and entertained by us. Page ib.
- The value and authority of their Office. Page ib.
- Credit and respect to be given to their Message. Page 241, 242
- They must treat with people with Love and sweetness; and Meckness and Patience. Page 242
- Christ, Spirit, Ministry must not be separated. Page 239
  - v. Men.
Mortality swallowed up of Life in the other World. Page 35
Mortifying sin ; how to improve the Death of Christ to the Mortifying of sin, Page 182

NEw Creature ; The necessity of the New Creation. Page 204
- What it is to be New Creatures. Page 201, 202
- Why likeness to God is called the New Creature. Page 203
- God the Author of the New Creature. Page 207
- God the Author of the New Creature as reconciled in Christ. Page 213
- How the New Creature flows from our Union with Christ Page 203
- Why the New C • eature cannot be satisfied with the World. Page 51
- Evidences of being New Creatures. v. Renovation. Page 206
New Heart, what it is. Page 206
Non-Imputation of sin, v. Imputation.

OBedience, the difficulties of obedience how sweetened. Page 73
Obedience the great Evidence of Love. Page 166
- The properties of that Obedience that flows from Love. Page 166
- Marks of sincere Obedience. Page 102
Odium abominations & inimicitiae, explained. Page 246

Pain of sense in Hell twofold. Page 105
- Paul's Testimony of his sincerity. Page 118
- All Ministers and Christians may have the like Testimony of their Sincerity. Page 119
- How he commends himself to the Corinthians. Page 118
Pardon of Sin, the necessity of having Sin pardoned. Page 231
- The great difficulty of having Sin pardoned, when once committed. Page 230
- God's readiness to pardon Sin. Page 232
- God pardons Sin, not as the party offended only, but as the Supreme Judge. Page 227
- The Excellency of this Privilege. Page 232
- The good depending on pardon of Sin in this life, and in the next. Page 222, 223
- Pardon of Sin, the proper Privilege of the New Covenant. Page 231
- It's a branch of our Reconciliation with God. Page 225
- Reasons to prove it so. Page 227
- They that are reconciled to God, had need still to beg pardon of Sin. Page 225
- What those that are reconciled ask in asking a pardon. Page 226
- The design of pardon of Sin laid in God's Eternal Decree. Page 223
- It was purchased by Christ, when he paid a Ransom for us. Page ib.
- Pardon of Sin is chiefly eyed in the Death of Christ. Page 230
- We are actually pardoned, when we believe and repent, v. Faith and Repentance. Page 224
- We are sensibly pardoned, when God gives Peace and Joy in believing. Page 225
- We are fully and completely pardoned at the Day of Judgment. Page ib.
- Pardoning Mercy breedeth and feedeth Love to God. Page 230
- Pardon of Sin an inviting Motive to Holiness▪ Page 228, 229
Perfection to be striven for. Page 164
Persuasion. Ministers to persuade men. Page 115
- What this Persuasion implies. Page 114
- People to persuade themselves. Page 115
Pleasing God ; what makes us active in it. Page 75
- Why we should labor to please God. Page 76
- Pleasing God more to be regarded than pleasing of Men. Page 77
Pleasing of Men, how far condemned. Page ib.
Pleasures of this Life to be used sparingly. Page 70
Power of Man to convert himself, the Absurdities that follow it. Page 210
- It is only in the Power of God, to convert the sinner. v. Conversion.
- Not only the Power to will, but to work when converted, is of God. Page 210
Preaching of the word necessary, and the Reasons of it. Page 237
- The congruity and decency of this Dispensation. Page 237
Presence with Christ in Heaven better than remaining in the Body. Page 69
- Our Happiness in another World lies in presence with the Lord. Page 63
- Reasons of it. Page 64
- To be desired by the Saints. Page 68
- Why the Saints desire it, Page 54
Profession of the name of Christ without conformity to his Laws, not valuable. Page 197
Providence ; mercies of daily Providence declare much of the goodness of God. Page 153
Punishment of sinners in Hell everlasting. Page 106
- Everlasting Punishment consistent with God's Justice. Page ib.
- Punishment of sense or Loss, which is the greater. Page 64

QUalification of those that shall have a blessed Estate in Heaven. Page 10

REcompence, different Recompences at the day of Judgment. Page 114
Reconciliation. What it is to Reconcile. Page 215
- The nature of this Reconciliation. Page 217
- The Revelation of the way of Reconciliation is a great blessing. Page 235
- How Reconciliation in Scripture is ascribed to God the Father, to Christ, and to believers themselves. Page 216
- How far Christ is concerned in it, opened. Page 219
- God in the work of Reconciliation, will keep up the honor of his Justice, Holiness and Truth. Page 219
- The Reconciliation is mutual, between God and man, and man and God. Page 215.217
- Why the Scriptures generally insist on our being Reconciled to God. Page 215
- The necessity of being Reconciled to God. Page 244
- Why God is said to Reconcile the world (indefinitely) to himself. Page 214
- God's condescension in this matter. Page 248
- The greatness of the Mercy and Grace of God in our Reconciliation. Page 220
- The value of the Privileges. Page 249
- The great dishonor we do to God in refusing it Page 249
- The Privileges and blessings that depend upon and accompany it. Page 218, 249
- By Reconciliation our State is as good, or better than it was in Innocency. Page 217
- Pardon of Sin a branch of our Reconciliation. v. Pardon. Page 225
- God the Author of the New Creature, as Reconciled to us in Christ. Page 213
- The End of our Reconciliation, is walking in a course of Holiness. Page 229
- Every thing in it implies Holiness. Page 219
- What is to be done on man's part, that he may be Reconciled to God. Page 243
- Our Right to this Privilege is begun as soon as we repent and believe in Christ. Page 218, 224
- Directions to those that are Reconciled. Page 24, 250
- They that are Reconciled had need beg pardon of sin. v. Pardon. Page 225
Redeemer. The necessity of a Redeemer. Page 163
Religion must be our Business and Recreation. Page 74
Renovation, the Nature of it. Page 207
- The Object of it. Page ib.
- That it is the work of God's Spirit: Page ib.
- The Effects of it. Page 208
- Its Connection with Reconciliation. Page ib.
  - v. New Creature.
Repentance, what it includes. Page 243
- v. Faith and Repentance.
Respect to Christ's Person in the days of his flesh was not all he looked for. Page 196
- Religiously to respect men for external, carnal advantages condemned. Page 194
Respect Civil due to carnal men. Page ib.
Respect of persons not with God. Page 110, 199
Resurrection of the Body, Reasons of it. Page 36
Resurrection of Christ, the Example, Pledge and Cause of the Spiritual Life. Page 189
- The likeness between Christ's rising from the dead, and Christians rising from the death of Sin. Page ib.
Rewards. Sinful respect to the Rewards of Religion, how it bewrayeth itself. Page 151
Right. God hath a Right to us. Page 186
Righteousness ; Why men are prone to establish a Righteousness of their own. Page 257
- Gospel-Righteousness, what it is. Page 72
- Gospel-Righteousness, a Garment to cover our nakedness. Page 28
Righteousness as it respects the precept, or the sanction of the Law opened. Page 252
Why the Righteousness, by which we are justified, is called the Righteousness of God. Page 253
- What is that Righteousness by which we are justified. Page 253, 254, 257
- Christ is made sin for us, and we are made the Righteousness of God in him. Page 254
- In what this exchange doth agree, in what it differs. Page ib.
- The Love of God herein. Page 256
- This Righteousness of Christ is made ours when we believe in him. Page 254
- The Privileges depending on our being made the Righteousness of God in Christ. Page 257

SAcrifices were offered by Adam. Page 28
Satisfaction of Christ, the truth of it. Page 170
- The Sufficiency of it. Page 171
Scope of a Christians Life. Page 71, 72
- v. End.
Self-Love, only cured by the Love of God. Page 230
Sight ; what Sights we shall have in Heaven. Page 60
- In what manner shall we Behold Christ. Page ib.
  - v. Faith and Sight.
Sin a wrong to God, how to be understood. Page 86
- Sin and shame always go together. Page 28
- The greatness of the Burden of Sin. Page 257
- Why Sin is a Burden. Page 33
- In what manner Sin is to be checked. Page 205
- The aggravations of Secret Sins. Page 95
- Secret Sins to be avoided because of future Judgment. Page 95
- In what sense Christ was said to be made Sin. Page 252
- Sin taken for a Sacrifice for sin, and for Punishment of sin. Page ib.
- Christ was made sin, but not a Sinner Page ib.
- Christ was made sin for us, and we the Righteousness of God in him. Page 254
- Christ being made Sin is the cause of our being made the Righteousness of God in him. Page 255
Sincerity, how evidenced. Page 102
- Paul's Testimony of his Sincerity. Page 118
Soul ; that it is distinct from the Body proved, Page 66
- It can live apart from the Body. Page 67
- The Souls of the Saints at Death immediately go to God. Page 67
Spirit ; How he dwells in us. Page 42
Strangers ; how to carry ourselves as Strangers in this World. Page 52
Sufferings of Christ, what they were Page 256
- They show the heinousness of sin. Page 174
- How we are to be affected, when we read the story of Christ's sufferings. Page 198
Suitableness between Christ and Believers. Page 190
Surety ; Christ the Surety of Believers. Page 171
- Christ died as a Surety. Page 179

TAbernacle ; our frail Condition set forth by a Tent, or Tabernacle. Page 2
Terror of the Lord is ground of Fear. Page 110
- How it is so to the godly. Page 113
- The Terror of the Lord should have an influence on us, while in the flesh. Page 113

VEracity and Faithfulness of God manifested at the Day of Judgment. Page 98
Union to Christ, Internal and External explained. Page 203
- How the New Nature flows from our Union with Christ. Page 203

WAlking by Faith, those who have Faith must walk by it. Page 61
- Reasons of it. Page ib.
Will ; God will not do any man good against his will. Page 235
- Nor doth he force man's will, but deal by Persuasion. Page 236
Wisdom ; wherein Wisdom lies. Page 128
- Wherein the Wisdom of a godly man appears. Page 128
Evidences of Spiritual Wisdom. Page 129
- How Wisdom is to be justified by her Children. Page 128
Wisdom of Christ. Page 83
Word of God is an Instrument fitted to gain the consent of man's will. Page 236
Work ; the Work of a Christian. Page 72, 74
- Why Works are produced at the Day of Judgment. Page 97
- What room and place Works have with respect to our final sentence, and the Rewards and Punishments that follow it. Page 100, 101
Works good, the Principle of them. Page 101
- Good Works cannot be performed by men in a state of Nature. Page ib.
- The aim, and scope of them. Page ib.
Good Works Imperfect. Page 99
- They merit nothing. Page ib.
- What respect Good Works have to our future Reward. Page 102
Worship ; External Pomp in the Worship of God is not that he looks after. Page 198

A TABLE OF SCRIPTURES EXPLAINED In the SERMONS on 2 CORINTHIANS 5.

	Chap.	Verse	Page
GEnesis	1	31	216
3	11	28
4	7	252
	13	252
Exodus	32	25	28
Deuteronomy	6	5	163
30	6	167
1 Kings	5	26	95
Psalms	1	5	92
27	4	64
31	1	233
33	15	93
51	4	92
115	1	133
130	3	92
Proverbs	16	14	112
29	27	246
Ecclesiastes	3	21	129
5	6	93
12	7	66
Canticles	8	6	146
Isaiah	56	4	76
65	17	200
66	22	200
Jeremiah	23	6	253
Hosea	2	3	28
4	8	252
6	7	96
10	1	183
	11	152
Amos	6	3	112
Habakkuk	2	11	96
Malachi	2	15	168
Matthew	3	11	112
Matthew	11	19	128
20	23	40
22	37	163, 250
24	12	160
25	31	78
Mark	6	11	94
9	44	105
Luke	2	40	(191)
10	27	250
12	20	4
16	9	68
	22	68
20	37, 38	68
23	43	67
John	2	24, 25	84
5	45	93
7	• 4	63
14	2	4
15	2	203
20	27	197
Acts	16	14	175
20	21	224
Romans	5	14	171
	25	223
6	3, 4, 5	180
	6	177, 179
	13	180
6	19	131
8	2	164
9	3	141
11	36	134
14	7, 8	183
15	3	187
1 Corinthians	3	8	40
1 Corinthians	4	4, 5	82
11	22	195
15	21	179
	45	179
16	32	169
2 Corinthians	1	12	117
4	7	238
	16	60
5	21	171
6	11, 12, 13	145
Galatians	2	20	178
3	1	59
	20	80
4	14	• 41
5	17	180
Ephesians	1	3	51
4	18	(190)
Philippians	1	23	67
2	13	209
Colossians	1	20	68
	21	217
3	3, 5	179, 180, 191
1 Thessalonians	1	10	112
1 Thessalonians	2	12	39
	13	241
1 Timothy	6	12, 19	6
2 Timothy	2	21	204
Hebrews	3	1	235
4	13	84
7	22	179
9	28	252
10	31	111
13	4	95
James	4	1	195
1 Peter	1	17	110
2	9	129, 157
4	1	178
2 Peter	1	3	39
3	14	29
1 John	2	5	145
3	19	45
Revelations	2	5	162
	3	4	38
	5	9	76
	12	12	93

FINIS.