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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. By Custom this Sin is rooted, and so hardly lest; because it doth not only pervert the Constitution of the Soul, but the Constitution of the Body. Now when the Body is unruly, as well as the Affections, Grace hath more to struggle with. A Man that hath habituated himself to carnal Pleasure, because his Body is distempered and perverted, is not so soon healed. That's the reason, that when the Apostle ⟨p. 59⟩speaks of Meats and Drinks, 1 Cor. 6.12. he saith, he will not be brought under the Power of any. So again, when Men are given to Wine, it is their Custom, and rooted Disposition; therefore avoid, not only the gross Act, but the very Beginning, that it may not be a settled Distemper. Whenever you take Pleasures, they should be used with fear. It is the Charge the Spirit of God commenceth against those, Jude v. 12. Feeding themselves without fear. Mark, it is not enough for your acquitment, that you do not drink to Drunkenness, or feed to actual Excess and Distemper, but suffer it not to be a rooted Disposition in your Hearts, for then it will be hardly left. Austin speaks of his own Experience in this kind, Ebrietas long à me est, crapula autem nonnunquam subrepit servo tuo: Lord, I was never a Drunkard, it is far from me; but Gluttony creeps upon me unawares, and so hinders me from the Duties of the Spiritual Life. The Throat is a slippery Place, and needs to be guarded with much Watchfulness and Care, lest this Distemper be rooted in the Heart. Job sacrificed while his Sons were feasting; chap. 1.5. For Job said, It may be that my Sons have sinned, and cursed God in their Hearts. In all these things should we use much caution.
3. By Custom this Sin is rooted, and so hardly lest; because it doth not only pervert the Constitution of the Soul, but the Constitution of the Body. Now when the Body is unruly, as well as the Affections, Grace hath more to struggle with. A Man that hath habituated himself to carnal Pleasure, because his Body is distempered and perverted, is not so soon healed. That's the reason, that when the Apostle ⟨p. 59⟩speaks of Meats and Drinks,