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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. Distrustful Care is troubled about the Event, what shall be the Issue, but lawful Care is employed in the Use of Means. The Event is God's Act, Duty is ours; and to trouble our selves about it, is to take God's Work out of his Hands: We set our selves in God's stead, when we think to accomplish our Ends by our own Industry. The Lord might lay this Burden upon us as a Punishment of Sin, but he ⟨p. 80⟩would have us cast it upon himself; 1 Pet. 5.7. Casting all your Care upon him, for he careth for you. To neglect the Means, were to neglect Providence: but then to trouble our selves about the Event, what will be the Issue, and how these Means will succeed, that is to renounce Providence, to reproach God as if he were not solicitous for us. A Christian is not to trouble himself, what will become of him and his Posterity, that is God's care; and it is altogether needless in us, for God is all-sufficient: but he is to be diligent in a lawful Calling, and then let God do what seemeth him good.
1. Distrustful Care is troubled about the Event, what shall be the Issue, but lawful Care is imployed in the Use of Means. The Event is God's Act, Duty is ours; and to trouble our selves about it, is to take God's Work out of his Hands: We set our selves in God's stead, when we think to accomplish our Ends by our own Industry. The Lord might lay this Burden upon us as a Punishment of Sin, but he ⟨p. 80⟩would have us cast it upon himself; 1 Pet. 5.7. Casting all your Care upon him, for he careth for you. To neglect the Means, were to neglect Providence: but then to trouble our selves about the Event, what will be the Issue, and how these Means will succeed, that is to renounce Providence, to reproach God as if he were not sollicitous for us. A Christian is not to trouble himself, what will become of him and his Posterity, that is God's care; and it is altogether needless in us, for God is alsufficient: but he is to be diligent in a lawful Calling, and then let God do what seemeth him good.