“Grace is wronged by intercepting the glory of grace. It is the greatest sacrilege that can be to rob God of His glory, especially the glory of His grace. Above all things in the world, God’s glory is the most dear to Him; He cannot endure to have a partner.
Especially is the glory of His grace dear to him; it is the whole aim of all His dispensations to glorify grace: Eph. 1:6, ‘To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved.’
You rob God of His chiefest honour when you take the crown of glory that is due to grace, and put it upon your own head.”
–Thomas Manton, “Several Sermons Upon Titus 2:11-14” in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, vol. 16 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1874), 45–46.
