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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 not some Glances upon Heaven, such as are found in worldly and sensual Persons. Sometimes worldly Men have their lucida intervalla, their good Moods, and now and then have some sober Thoughts of Heaven that rush into their Mind. Balaam had his Wishes, Numb. 23.10. Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his. And the Apostle speaks of some that had a Taste, Heb. 6.4. snatch now and then some savour of the Sweetness of Heaven and spiritual Comforts. A wretched Worldling, in whose Fancy the World plays all the day, riseth with him, goeth to Bed with him, yet now and then hath his Wishes, and some sudden Raptures of Soul, some Flashes and Motions; but alas, this is not the looking for the blessed Hope, for that is a constant viewing of Happiness to come. Sudden Motions are not operative, they come but now and then, and leave no Warmth upon the Soul; as Fruit is not ripened that hath but a glance of the Sun: and you know a sudden Light rather blinds a Man than shows him his way; so these sudden Flashes, Enlightenings, and heavenly Thoughts, vanish, and leave a Man never the better.
2. It is not some Glances upon Heaven, such as are found in worldly and sensual Persons. Sometimes worldly Men have their lucida intervalla, their good Moods, and now and then have some sober Thoughts of Heaven that rush into their Mind. Balaam had his Wishes, Numb. 23.10. Let me die the Death of the Righteous, and let my last End be like his. And the Apostle speaks of some that had a Taste, Heb. 6.4. snatch now and then some savour of the Sweetness of Heaven and spiritual Comforts. A wretched Worldling, in whose Fancy the World plays all the day, riseth with him, goeth to Bed with him, yet now and then hath his Wishes, and some sudden Raptures of Soul, some Flashes and Motions; but alas, this is not the looking for the blessed Hope, for that is a constant viewing of Happiness to come. Sudden Motions are not operative, they come but now and then, and leave no Warmth upon the Soul; as Fruit is not ripened that hath but a glance of the Sun: and you know a sudden Light rather blinds a Man than shews him his way; so these sudden Flashes, Enlightnings, and heavenly Thoughts, vanish, and leave a Man never the better.