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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. As it is for God's Glory, so for our Profit; we look upon Comfort with Jealousy, knowing we have deserved none; we are guilty Creatures, therefore are loth to entertain it even upon God's Terms. Joy is the strength of the Soul, Neh. 8.10. The Joy of the Lord is your Strength, and that in all Duties. Satan knoweth that while the Conscience is kept raw, the Soul is unfit for Action. A Christian never acts so strongly, so regularly, as when he is filled with God's Love. Again; there are some special Duties which cannot be performed without Comfort, as rejoicing in God, Phil. 4.4. Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say, Rejoice. You cannot have comfortable Thoughts of God, your Meditation of God will not be sweet, until you have Apprehensions of his Grace. And you cannot long for the Presence of Christ. It is the Spirit in the Bride, that saith, Come, Rev. 22.17. God will not be sweet, nor the Day of Judgment looked upon with Hope and Longing. And so for Thankfulness for Mercies; Thanksgiving is the Vent of Comfort and Joy.
2. As it is for God's Glory, so for our Profit; we look upon Comfort with Jealousy, knowing we have deserved none; we are guilty Creatures, therefore are loth to entertain it even upon God's Terms. Joy is the strength of the Soul, Neh. 8.10. The Ioy of the Lord is your Strength, and that in all Duties. Satan knoweth that while the Conscience is kept raw, the Soul is unfit for Action. A Christian never acts so strongly, so regularly, as when he is filled with God's Love. Again; there are some special Duties which cannot be performed without Comfort, as rejoicing in God, Phil. 4.4. Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I say, Rejoice. You cannot have comfortable Thoughts of God, your Meditation of God will not be sweet, until you have Apprehensions of his Grace. And you cannot long for the Presence of Christ. It is the Spirit in the Bride, that saith, Come, Rev. 22.17. God will not be sweet, nor the Day of Judgment looked upon with Hope and Longing. And so for Thankfulness for Mercies; Thanksgiving is the Vent of Comfort and Joy.