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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.
3. It is contrary to our Hopes, we look for better things. It is a most lamentable thing to see a Christian that professeth the Assurance of a better Life, to lie digging like a Mole in the Earth: 1 Pet. 2.11. Dearly Beloved, I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims, abstain from fleshly Lusts, that war against the Soul. Worldly Men are fastened to things present, but the Children of God do bend and tend to things to come. Worldly Men do not look for better things, and therefore they are more to be excused: We have Cause to blush every time we think of our Condition: What are you? Whence came you? Whither are you going? You are Passengers to Heaven; why do you stick and linger by the way? Something we may take for our Refreshment; as Men that pass through a Field of Corn, rub the Ears as they go. As the Angel roused Elijah, 2 Kings 19.7. Arise and eat, for the Journey is too great for thee. You that affect to tarry in a foreign Country, have you a ⟨p. 51⟩Father in Heaven? Would a Traveller hang his Room in an Inn? Will he buy such things as he cannot carry with him? Such things as we can carry with us to Heaven, should take up our Time and Thoughts: Piety out-lives the Grave, but Honour and Wealth must be left behind us.
3. It is contrary to our Hopes, we look for better things. It is a most lamentable thing to see a Christian that professeth the Assurance of a better Life, to lie digging like a Mole in the Earth: 1 Pet. 2.11. Dearly Beloved, I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims, abstain from fleshly Lusts, that war against the Soul. Worldly Men are fastned to things present, but the Children of God do bend and tend to things to come. Worldly Men do not look for better things, and therefore they are more to be excused: We have Cause to blush every time we think of our Condition: What are you? Whence came you? Whither are you going? You are Passengers to Heaven; why do you stick and linger by the way? Something we may take for our Refreshment; as Men that pass through a Field of Corn, rub the Ears as they go. As the Angel roused Elijah, 2 Kings 19.7