Interpretation and reception
Sermons
Henry Edward Manning, then Archdeacon of Chichester
Reads Revelation’s waiting martyrs as evidence of a divinely fixed but hidden advent time, completing the elect while allowing repentance. Treats 144,000 symbolically and applies waiting through suffering. This is Manning’s Anglican-era sermon.
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Edition and location
CCEL transcription of James Burns second edition, London 1843; sermon collection counted once
Volume I, Sermon XXIII, The Waiting of the Invisible Church, pp. 333–348; title page