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Volume 3 contains eighteen sermons on 2 Thessalonians 2, in which Manton encourages his listeners to stand firm and prepare—in hope—for the day of the Lord. The second half of Volume 3 contains “A Practical Exposition Upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah,” in which he peels back the theological, pastoral, and practical implications of the life and death of the Suffering Servant.

to have suffered these things, and then to enter into his glory?’ That proveth it an antecedent, not a cause or merit of glory. There is a difference between consequents and effects: Phil. 2:8, 9, ‘He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him:’ διὸ signifieth after which. In Dan. 9:26, it is said, ‘The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.’ And so here, ‘He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities.’ Use 2. Is
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