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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.
2. Sinful Care flieth to unlawful Means, but Religious Care keepeth within the bounds of Duty: Prov. 16.8. Better is a little with Righteousness, than great Revenues without right. It useth no Means that are indirect and sinful. Men that will not trust God with success, will soon go out of God's way. The Unbeliever looketh not to what is just, but to what is gainful: as those that gathered Manna on the Sabbath-Day, and trod Wine-presses, and brought in Sheaves, and laded Asses, Neh. 13.15.
3. Sinful Care is immoderate in the use of lawful Means. Eccles. 2.23. For all his Days are Sorrows, and his Travel Grief; yea, his Heart taketh not rest in the night. Those that have none else to trust to, no wonder if they make use of their own Endeavours to the uttermost: but he that hath an Heavenly Father, should not so cumber and distract his Spirit. Eccles. 4.8. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither Child nor Brother: yet is there no end of all his Labour; neither is his Eye satisfied with Riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my Soul of Good? The World will not let them be quiet: they toil and moil, and there is no end. When Men multiply Means, they have no trust in God. God is tender of all his Creatures, much more of the reasonable Creature.
4. Sinful Care increaseth upon good Duties, but diligent Care fairly complieth with them. Christ warns his Disciples,