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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.
the former is more sweet to a gracious Heart: but the Comparison should rather be made thus; Compare the base dreggy Pleasures of Sin, with those pure Pleasures that are at God's right Hand, and with the Happiness that is to come, which we expect in Christ.
4. It maketh us upright and sincere in what we do: That's Hypocrisy and Guile of Spirit to look a-squint upon secular Rewards. You know the Hypocrites that Christ taxeth, when they Pray, Fast, and do other Duties to be seen of Men, they have their Reward, Matth. 6.2. They have given God a Discharge, they look for no more than they have already. As hired Servants must have present Wages, and Pay in Hand, they wait not for the Inheritance as Children do: so carnal Affections they look to the Rewards here below: If they may have the World, and live in Honour and Pleasure here, they give God an Acquittance for any thing else. But now this is Sincerity to make God our Pay-master, to do all we do upon the Encouragement of the blessed Hope; Col. 3.24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the Reward of the Inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. You have a Master good enough, you need not look else-where for your Wages. And nothing on this side Heaven will satisfy the Soul, nothing but these glorious Hopes.
4. It maketh us upright and sincere in what we do: That's Hypocrisy and Guile of Spirit to look a-squint upon secular Rewards. You know the Hypocrites that Christ taxeth, when they Pray, Fast, and do other Duties to be seen of Men, they have their Reward, Matth. 6.2. They have given God a Discharge, they look for no more than they have already. As hired Servants must have present Wages, and Pay in Hand, they wait not for the Inheritance as Children do: so carnal Affections they look to the Rewards here below: If they may have the World, and live in Honour and Pleasure here, they give God an Acquittance for any thing else. But now this is Sincerity to make God our Pay-master, to do all we do upon the Incouragement of the blessed Hope;