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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.
4. Worldly Lusts do hinder us from our Work. We were made for another World; and this Life is lent us for a while to look after Heaven. We cannot drive on those two Cares at once, for the World and Heaven too; as a Man cannot look with one Eye to Heaven, and with another to the Earth: therefore why should we indulge worldly Lusts? Who would lose a Crown, to be owner of a Dunghill? And will you forfeit Heaven, and the Joys of God's Presence, for worldly Conveniences? Lust hinders your care of Heaven. It is true, a temperate and religious ⟨p. 57⟩use of the World furthereth it, but worldly Lust doth take off your Heart from God and Heaven, and unfits it for it, so that your Heavenly Desires are hindered.
4. Worldly Lusts do hinder us from our Work. We were made for another World; and this Life is lent us for a while to look after Heaven. We cannot drive on those two Cares at once, for the World and Heaven too; as a Man cannot look with one Eye to Heaven, and with another to the Earth: therefore why should we indulge worldly Lusts? Who would lose a Crown, to be owner of a Dunghil? And will you forfeit Heaven, and the Joys of God's Presence, for worldly Conveniences? Lust hinders your care of Heaven. It is true, a temperate and religious ⟨p. 57⟩use of the World furthereth it, but worldly Lust doth take off your Heart from God and Heaven, and unfits it for it, so that your Heavenly Desires are hindered.
5. In a sense, worldly Lusts do hinder us of the Comfort of this World. Want increaseth with Enjoyment; as the Fire increaseth by laying on more Fuel. The more we enjoy, the more we desire; so we do not enjoy what we do possess. The more we have, the more we want; so that a covetous Man neither enjoys this World, nor the World to come.
5. In a sense, worldly Lusts do hinder us of the Comfort of this World. Want encreaseth with Enjoyment; as the Fire encreaseth by laying on more Fuel. The more we enjoy, the more we desire; so we do not enjoy what we do possess. The more we have, the more we want; so that a covetous Man neither enjoys this World, nor the World to come.