A51840:1332
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
SERMONS UPON St. LUKE XII.48. › Sermon 1SERMONS UPON St. LVKE XII.48. › Sermon 1
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.
So for Grace it self. The very Nature of it showeth it is a Trust. Luke 16.11. If you have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true Riches? To be trusted with an Estate, is not so great a Trust as to be trusted with Grace: This is a Gift more precious, and should not lie idle. God trusts ordinary Men with an Estate, but his People with Grace. When we suspect a Vessel is leaky, we fill it with Water before we fill it with Wine. God expecteth more Honour from new Creatures, than he doth from all the World besides, and that they should do more good in their places. This is the most precious Gift, yet given in order to some other thing; it is made for God, that we should glorify him, and be capable of enjoying him to all Eternity.
So for Grace it self. The very Nature of it sheweth it is a Trust. Luke 16.11. If you have not been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon, who will commit to your trust the true Riches? To be trusted with an Estate, is not so great a Trust as to be trusted with Grace: This is a Gift more precious, and should not lie idle. God trusts ordinary Men with an Estate, but his People with Grace. When we suspect a Vessel is leaky, we fill it with Water before we fill it with Wine. God expecteth more Honour from new Creatures, than he doth from all the World besides, and that they should do more good in their places. This is the most precious Gift, yet given in order to some other thing; it is made for God, that we should glorify him, and be capable of injoying him to all Eternity.
2. This is the End of the Distribution. Wherefore hath God given these Talents in any eminent degree, or in such variety to Men, but that they should trade with them, and be more fitted for his Service? 1 Cor. 12.7. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal. There is indeed a three-fold End of all our Trading, The glorifying of God, the saving of our own Souls, and the good of others: For in a moral Consideration, there are but three Beings, God, Neighbour, Self.