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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.
6. It informs us, what cause we have to contemn all earthly things, tho they be never so great and glorious, because of this blessed Hope. There are two Considerations that will make us contemn the World, and they are suited to the two essential Parts of Man; and we should ever think of them. We carry about us a mortal Body, and an immortal Soul; the Body lasts but for a while, and the Soul survives and out-lives the Body's Happiness. Now we toil our selves in gathering Sticks to our Nest, when to morrow we must be gone. Alas! here we dwell in Houses of Clay, whose Foundation is in the Dust, which are crushed before the Moth, Job 4.19. Our Estate in this World is represented by a Tabernacle, which is a moveable Habitation; but our Estate in Heaven is represented by a Temple. Here it is but a Tabernacle, and that of Clay, that will be crumbled into Dust; nay, we are said to be ⟨p. 128⟩crushed before the Moth, and a Moth is but a little enlivened Dust, and so is Man. The World is but a House of Potters Vessels, that will be soon broken; And shall we for the Conveniences of a Temporal Life, prejudice, and run the hazard and loss of our Eternal Hopes? Shall we injure the Soul, to gratify the Body? that is the way to destroy both for ever. Our great care should be for that Place where we live longest: in the other World we have the longest Life, and the most glorious Possession; therefore our great Care should be for that.
6. It informs us, what cause we have to contemn all earthly things, tho they be never so great and glorious, because of this blessed Hope. There are two Considerations that will make us contemn the World, and they are suted to the two essential Parts of Man; and we should ever think of them. We carry about us a mortal Body, and an immortal Soul; the Body lasts but for a while, and the Soul survives and out-lives the Body's Happiness. Now we toil our selves in gathering Sticks to our Nest, when to morrow we must be gone. Alas! here we dwell in Houses of Clay, whose Foundation is in the Dust, which are crushed before the Moth, Job 4.19. Our Estate in this World is represented by a Tabernacle, which is a moveable Habitation; but our Estate in Heaven is represented by a Temple. Here it is but a Tabernacle, and that of Clay, that will be crumbled into Dust; nay, we are said to be