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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. Consider it. Hope is a temperate Ecstasy, a Survey of the Land of Promise. As God said to Abraham, Gen. 13.14, 15. Lift up now thine Eyes, and look from the Place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward. For all the Land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy Seed for ever. So Psal. 48.12. Walk about Zion, and go round about her, tell the Towers thereof. It is a great Advantage to think often of Heaven, it maketh it present to us. Heaven deserveth our best Thoughts. We should always do it; in the Morning it were a good Preservative to keep us from being under the power of present things; Psal. 17.15. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy Likeness. In some special Seasons doth Hope set the Mind a-work: in times of Trouble and present Sufferings, we enjoy a happy Dedolency: the Mind is untouched, whatever the Body suffereth. When we are summoned to the Grave, and bodily Sicknesses put you in mind of Death, when Sense and Speech fail, the Love of God never fails; this pale Horse is sent from Christ to carry us to Glory: and though we go down to the Grave to converse with Worms and Skulls, this Hope may comfort us, Job 19.26, 27. And though after my Skin Worms destroy this Body, yet in my Flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for my self, and mine Eyes shall behold, and not another, tho my Reins be consumed within me.
1. Consider it. Hope is a temperate Extasy, a Survey of the Land of Promise. As God said to Abraham, Gen. 13.14, 15. Lift up now thine Eyes, and look from the Place where thou art, Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward. For all the Land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy Seed for ever. So Psal. 48.12. Walk about Zion, and go round about her, tell the Towers thereof. It is a great Advantage to think often of Heaven, it maketh it present to us. Heaven deserveth our best Thoughts. We should always do it; in the Morning it were a good Preservative to keep us from being under the power of present things;