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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.) It is only here, this is the fittest Place for Exercise: Here are Difficulties, Snares and Temptations; and these serve to discover the Glory of Grace; and this makes it worthy of Praise, that we can act for God in the present World, where so ⟨p. 101⟩many miscarry; 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forsaken us, having loved this present World. Here is the fit Place for our Trial, where we have so many Difficulties, Snares, Baits, Avocations and Scandals, to take us off from performing the Duty of our Heavenly Calling. As Death leaves us, so Judgment finds us. Upon our Behaviour in the present Life, both our everlasting Woe or Weal depends. Hereafter is not a time of Labour, but of Reward and Punishment; there is no room for Exercise and Trial there, no Snares in the next World: Grace cannot be found worthy of Praise there, for that is God's Day, called the Day of the Lord, 2 Pet. 3.10. The Day of the Lord will come as a Thief in the Night. Here is our Day, because God affords Time to us as a Space and Season of Repentance and Reformation; but the Day of Judgment, that is the Lord's Day, the Day of Recompense, Rewards and Punishments.
(2.) It is only here, this is the fittest Place for Exercise: Here are Difficulties, Snares and Temptations; and these serve to discover the Glory of Grace; and this makes it worthy of Praise, that we can act for God in the present World, where so ⟨p. 101⟩many miscarry; 2 Tim. 4.10. Demas hath forsaken us, having loved this present World. Here is the fit Place for our Trial, where we have so many Difficulties, Snares, Baits, Avocations and Scandals, to take us off from performing the Duty of our Heavenly Calling. As Death leaves us, so Judgment finds us. Upon our Behaviour in the present Life, both our everlasting Woe or Weal depends. Hereafter is not a time of Labour, but of Reward and Punishment; there is no room for Exercise and Trial there, no Snares in the next World: Grace cannot be found worthy of Praise there, for that is God's Day, called the Day of the Lord,