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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. Custom, which is another Nature. Carnal Affections are not only born with us, but bred up with us; we are acquainted with them from our Infancy, and so they plead Prescription. Religion comes afterward, and therefore very hard it must needs be to renounce our Lusts, because they have the start of Grace. The first Years of humane Life are merely governed by the Senses, which judg of what is sweet, and not of what is good: whence it cometh to pass that when a Man is come to that Age wherein he beginneth to have the Use of Reason, he can hardly change his Custom, and alter his Course of Life, and therefore continueth to live as he hath begun: still the Senses act in the first place. Earthly Contentments are present to our Sense, the other only to our Faith; these are before our Eyes, and we still see the Need and Use of them: We know how hard it is to break a Custom, especially if it yield any Pleasure or Profit; Jer. 13.23. How can ye do Good, that are accustomed to do Evil?
2. Custom, which is another Nature. Carnal Affections are not only born with us, but bred up with us; we are acquainted with them from our Infancy, and so they plead Prescription. Religion comes afterward, and therefore very hard it must needs be to renounce our Lusts, because they have the start of Grace. The first Years of humane Life are merely governed by the Senses, which judg of what is sweet, and not of what is good: whence it cometh to pass that when a Man is come to that Age wherein he beginneth to have the Use of Reason, he can hardly change his Custom, and alter his Course of Life, and therefore continueth to live as he hath begun: still the Senses act in the first place. Earthly Contentments are present to our Sense, the other only to our Faith; these are before our Eyes, and we still see the Need and Use of them: We know how hard it is to break a Custom, especially if it yield any Pleasure or Profit; Ier. 13.23. How can ye do Good, that are accustomed to do Evil?