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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. You must not retract your Vows. It is dangerous to alienate things once consecrated, to say with him, I go, Sir, and went not, Mat. 21.30. or as Ananias, to keep back part of the Money for which he sold his Possession, and yet the thing was in his own power. But you are not in your own power, it is not indifferent whether you will give up your selves to Christ or no, but it is a Duty; and therefore live as if thou wert not thine own Master, but act for Christ, think for Christ, and do for Christ; it is not an hard Law. Consider what Christ did, Christ pleased not himself, Rom. 15.3. He had a private Will as well as you, but he denied it, and yielded to the public Will: Christ did not obey his private Will to the prejudice of his public; therefore let it not be grievous to renounce your Will: 2 Cor. 5.14, 15. For the Love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judg, that if Christ died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
2. You must not retract your Vows. It is dangerous to alienate things once consecrated, to say with him, I go, Sir, and went not, Mat. 21.30. or as Ananias, to keep back part of the Mony for which he sold his Possession, and yet the thing was in his own power. But you are not in your own power, it is not indifferent whether you will give up your selves to Christ or no, but it is a Duty; and therefore live as if thou wert not thine own Master, but act for Christ, think for Christ, and do for Christ; it is not an hard Law. Consider what Christ did, Christ pleased not himself, Rom. 15.3. He had a private Will as well as you, but he denied it, and yielded to the publick Will: Christ did not obey his private Will to the prejudice of his publick; therefore let it not be grievous to renounce your Will: 2 Cor. 5.14, 15. For the Love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judg, that if Christ died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.