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Volume 11 concludes Manton’s exposition of John 17 with thirty sermons on Jesus’ prayer for all believers. The second half of this volume is devoted to a lengthy collection of sermons on Romans 6 and the first part of Romans 8. These sermons explore many key Pauline themes, such as the contrasts between grace and the law, between the flesh and the spirit, and between death in sin and life in...

1. Consider, Whose sentence this is. There is sententia legis and sententia judicis—the sentence of the law and the sentence of the judge. The sentence of the law is the sentence of the word of God, and that is either the law of works or the law of grace. The damnatory sentence of the law concludeth all under the curse, for ‘all are under sin:’ Gal. 3:10, ‘For as many as are under the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is he that continueth not in all things that are
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