A51840:945
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. It informeth us, that the Judgment of God, and the Judgment of the World are very contrary. The World counts the Saints the Filth, the Scurf and Off-scouring of all things; and God calls them Jewels and Treasure. Alas! with God carnal Men are nothing, worse than nothing. It had been better for them, saith the Spirit of God, that they had never been born; and they are viler than the Earth. The blind World knows not how to value the Stamp and Seal of the Spirit. When God hath impressed his own Image, the World knows not how to value them; but God values them: These are Coins and Medals God will keep in his own Treasure. Certainly they are worthless Souls that despise them, that count Purity a Disgrace. It hath always been the World's Fashion to crucify God in Effigy, in his Picture; to despise, oppress and scoff at them that bear his Image, and resemble him, and malign and scorn the Lustre of Holiness.
2. It informeth us, that the Judgment of God, and the Judgment of the World are very contrary. The World counts the Saints the Filth, the Scurf and Off-scouring of all things; and God calls them Jewels and Treasure. Alas! with God carnal Men are nothing, worse than nothing. It had been better for them, saith the Spirit of God, that they had never been born; and they are viler than the Earth. The blind World knows not how to value the Stamp and Seal of the Spirit. When God hath impress'd his own Image, the World knows not how to value them; but God values them: These are Coins and Medals God will keep in his own Treasure. Certainly they are worthless Souls that despise them, that count Purity a Disgrace. It hath always been the World's Fashion to crucify God in Effigie, in his Picture; to despise, oppress and scoff at them that bear his Image, and resemble him, and malign and scorn the Lustre of Holiness.
3. It informs us how much it concerns us to be holy and purified, for those he counts to be his Treasure: God's Church is his Heritage, but every one that lives in the Church God doth not count them to be his Jewels. Many claim Acquaintance of him by virtue of Offices and Ministration in the Church, yet they are disclaimed ⟨p. 177⟩