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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.
Ivth Branch, Sobriety in worldly Cares.
IVth Branch, Sobriety in worldly Cares.
The next Branch is Sobriety or Moderation in worldly Cares. These also besot the Mind, and deprive it of the Sense of spiritual things. By a strange Fascination and Enchantment, our Care becometh our Pleasure, and Men grow quite drunk with the World, so that they are always scraping and raking here as if their whole time were given for nothing but getting Wealth.
The next Branch is Sobriety or Moderation in worldly Cares. These also besot the Mind, and deprive it of the Sense of spiritual things. By a strange Fascination and Inchantment, our Care becometh our Pleasure, and Men grow quite drunk with the World, so that they are always scraping and raking here as if their whole time were given for nothing but getting Wealth.
First; What this carking and worldly Care is that must be moderated. The Scripture doth not only allow but require an honest Diligence: It is a Command as well as a Threatening; In the Sweat of thy Face thou shalt eat thy Bread, Gen. 3.19. The Grievousness and Burdensomness of Labour falls under the Threatening; but the Labour it self is a Command, as moral as any of the Ten. The Apostle saith,