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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. There must be a serious Inclination of the Will against it. Carnal Men will profess a Purpose and saint Resolution; but there is no Principle of Grace to bear it, no Bent of the Will against it. Psal. 109.104. I hate every false Way. A Child of God doth not escape every false Way, but he hateth it, the Inclination of the New Nature is against it; and therefore Sin is not committed without Resistance, there are Dislikes and Denials in the renewed part; there is a fear of Sin beforehand, and a present striving against it, and an after-grief for it: The Consent is extorted by the Violence of a Temptation, and retracted by Remorse; for Remorse is as the withdrawing of the Consent, so that it is besides the Inclination of the Will.
3. There must be Endeavours against it. The Case of Obedience must be universal, though the Success be not answerable; Psal. 119.6. Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy Commandments; not when I have kept them, but when I have a respect to them all: We should never be able to look G•od in the Face, if our Acceptance lay upon keeping all his Commandments; but we must respect them all, and endeavour to keep them all, and dispense with our selves in no known failing; and still the Work of denying all Sin must be carried on by degrees.
Thus much for the General Observations.