A51840:787
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.
7. To preserve that mixed Affection which best becomes the present State we are in: Our State is mixed, and we act best under a mixed Affection. God would have us not only love him, but fear him: And therefore he is represented as a mighty God, as well as a gracious Saviour; that we may come to him with Reverence, and yet with Confidence. That's the proper temper of a gracious Spirit in all our Addresses to God; Psal. 2.10. Serve the Lord with Fear, and rejoice with Trembling. Fear mixed and tempered with Love, is most regular, so is Love that is guided with Fear: Therefore when you pray to him, and worship him, and serve him, remember he is the great God; but lest that should breed Bondage and Dejection in your Spirits, remember he is also our Saviour. How sweet would this be, if we could ⟨p. 150⟩but make use of both these Titles, whenever we have to do with him? Our Affections should be mixed as Christ's Titles are. It is said of the Church, Acts 9.31. They walked in the Fear of the Lord, and in the Comfort of the Holy Ghost. This doth well together, fear God, and rejoice in God. Do not dally with a Saviour, and please your selves in cherishing a loose Comfort, when you neglect Duty, and are touched with no Awe of God: and then do not indulge a legal Dejection, the great God whom you dread and reverence, is your Saviour. Therefore are the Titles of Christ mixed, to beget a sweet Temperature of Fear and Love. So much for the conjunct Consideration of the Words.
7. To preserve that mix'd Affection which best becomes the present State we are in: Our State is mix'd, and we act best under a mix'd Affection. God would have us not only love him, but fear him: And therefore he is represented as a mighty God, as well as a gracious Saviour; that we may come to him with Reverence, and yet with Confidence. That's the proper temper of a gracious Spirit in all our Addresses to God; Psal. 2.10. Serve the Lord with Fear, and rejoice with Trembling. Fear mix'd and temper'd with Love, is most regular, so is Love that is guided with Fear: Therefore when you pray to him, and worship him, and serve him, remember he is the great God; but lest that should breed Bondage and Dejection in your Spirits, remember he is also our Saviour. How sweet would this be, if we could