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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.
By way of Argument consider.
1. Sensual Men have little of God's Spirit; Jude, v. 19. Sensual, having not the Spirit. The Spirit is a free Spirit, and they are Slaves to their Lusts; the Spirit is a pure Spirit, and their Desires are unclean and gross; the Spirit is active, and they are heavy, and muddy, and of a Nature dull and slow. Sensual Men quench the vigour of Nature, much more the Efficacy and radiancy of the Graces of the Spirit. The Spirit works intellectual Delights, and they are all for Sensual. They love Pleasures more than God: 2 Tim. 3.4. Lovers of Pleasure, more than lovers of God, those dreggy Delights; whereas the Comforts and Consolations of the Spirit are Masculine, and they are got by Exercise. Look, as the manly Heat gotten by Exercise, is better than that which is gotten by hovering over the Fire: So the Comforts of the Spirit, gained by much Communion with God, by being instant and earnest in Prayer, is better than that Delight which is gotten by hovering over the Creature. Well then, which will you choose? will you live at large, and ease, and wallow in earthly Delights and Contentments? or would you be stirred up by the active Motion of the Spirit of God? Would you dissolve your precious Hours and Spirits in Ease and Pleasure, or else be employed in the solemn and grave Exercises of Religion? Frogs delight in Fens; and the worst Natures are most sensual, they are not fit for any worthy Action, or any great Exploit.
1. Sensual Men have little of God's Spirit; Iude, v. 19. Sensual, having not the Spirit. The Spirit is a free Spirit, and they are Slaves to their Lusts; the Spirit is a pure Spirit, and their Desires are unclean and gross; the Spirit is active, and they are heavy, and muddy, and of a Nature dull and slow. Sensual Men quench the vigour of Nature, much more the Efficacy and radiancy of the Graces of the Spirit. The Spirit works intellectual Delights, and they are all for Sensual. They love Pleasures more than God: