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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.
Obj. But must we not be careful and provident? I answer, 1. Do your present Work, and for the future leave it to God. God would have us look no farther than the present day, provided we do not embezzle our Estate by idle Projects, or in carnal Pleasures, or wasteful Profusion; and provided we be not negligent in our Calling: Let us do our Work, and let God alone for future Times. It is a Mercy. God would have our Care look no farther than the present day, Mat. 6.34. Sufficient unto the Day is the Evil thereof. God is very careful of Man's Welfare, he hath made carking a Sin, he might have left it as a Punishment. Every day hath Trouble enough for our Exercise, and that's as much as God hath required.
Obj. But must we not be careful and provident? I answer, 1. Do your present Work, and for the future leave it to God. God would have us look no farther than the present day, provided we do not embezel our Estate by idle Projects, or in carnal Pleasures, or wasteful Profusion; and provided we be not negligent in our Calling: Let us do our Work, and let God alone for future Times. It is a Mercy. God would have our Care look no farther than the present day, Mat. 6.34. Sufficient unto the Day is the Evil thereof. God is very careful of Man's Welfare, he hath made carking a Sin, he might have left it as a Punishment. Every day hath Trouble enough for our Exercise, and that's as much as God hath required.
2. It is bewrayed by an immoderate Desire. The Temper of the Heart is very much discovered by the Current and Stream of the Desires. As the Temper of the Body is known by the beating of the Pulses, so is the Temper of the Soul by the Course of the Desires: Or, as Physicians judg of the Patient by his Appetite, so may you judg of your Spirits by your Desires, how they are carried out, whether to Heavenly Things, and the Enjoyment of God, or to the World. A carnal frame of Spirit will be known by an unsatisfied Thirst, and the ravenousness of the Desires, when they still increase with the Enjoyment, and Men crave more and more: Such a Dropsy as this is, argues a distempered Soul, especially when the Desires are transported beyond all bounds of Modesty and Contentment;