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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.
1. When bodily Health is overturned. Too much care for the Body, destroys it. As the Romans were wont to have their Funerals at the Gates of Venus's Temple, to show that Lusts shorten Life. When Health is destroyed, or the Vigour of Nature is abated, (as too much Oil puts out the Lamp) then you sin. Hos. 4.11. it is said, Whoredom, and Wine, and new Wine, take away the Heart: The Heart, (that is) the generousness and sprightliness of Man. When gallant and active Spirits are effeminated, and brave Hopes are drowned and quenched in excess of Pleasures, and we lose our masculine Agility and Vivacity, all is melted away; then we sin against the Bounds and Limits God hath set us. Thus there is a Restraint that ariseth from the Body.
1. When bodily Health is overturned. Too much care for the Body, destroys it. As the Romans were wont to have their Funerals at the Gates of Venus's Temple, to shew that Lusts shorten Life. When Health is destroyed, or the Vigour of Nature is abated, (as too much Oil puts out the Lamp) then you sin. Hos. 4.11. it is said, Whoredom, and Wine, and new Wine, take away the Heart: The Heart, (that is) the generousness and sprightliness of Man. When gallant and active Spirits are effeminated, and brave Hopes are drowned and quenched in excess of Pleasures, and we lose our masculine Agility and Vivacity, all is melted away; then we sin against the Bounds and Limits God hath set us. Thus there is a Restraint that ariseth from the Body.
2. When the Soul is clogged or unfitted for Duty, or disposed for Sin. (1.) Then we are unfitted for Duty, when there's less aptitude for God's Service. The Matter of carnal Pleasure is burdensome and gross, it oppresseth the Soul, that it cannot lift up it self to God and Divine Things, because it is bowed down and humbled ⟨p. 58⟩to Pleasures, and the Heart is overcharged: