A51840:947
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.
4. It informs us, that it is dangerous to molest, oppress and prosecute the Godly, those that are purified, because they are God's peculiar ones; you meddle with the Apple of his Eye, and to destroy them is Sacrilege. Israel is a holy thing, Jer. 2.3. Israel is Holiness unto the Lord, and the first-fruits of his Increase: all that devour him shall offend; Evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. Sacrilege hath been always deadly; robbing of Temples among the Heathen hath been always observed to be fatal to those that attempted it: the Lord by his wise Providence was pleased to suffer the Devil to follow them with Tempests and Punishments, to keep up the Notion of a Divine Power, which is the Fundamental Principle and Ground of all Religion. So when you oppress and destroy the People of God, and malign them, you devour that which is holy, which will prove fatal and deadly. Look as he told the Governor, Acts 22.26. Take heed what thou doest, for this Man is a Roman. So God is very tender of these kind of Men, they are his Jewels, his Treasure, take heed how you use them.
4. It informs us, that it is dangerous to molest, oppress and prosecute the Godly, those that are purified, because they are God's peculiar ones; you meddle with the Apple of his Eye, and to destroy them is Sacrilege. Israel is a holy thing, Ier. 2.3. Israel is Holiness unto the Lord, and the first-fruits of his Increase: all that devour him shall offend; Evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. Sacrilege hath been always deadly; robbing of Temples among the Heathen hath been always observed to be fatal to those that attempted it: the Lord by his wise Providence was pleased to suffer the Devil to follow them with Tempests and Punishments, to keep up the Notion of a Divine Power, which is the Fundamental Principle and Ground of all Religion. So when you oppress and destroy the People of God, and malign them, you devour that which is holy, which will prove fatal and deadly. Look as he told the Governour, Acts 22.26. Take heed what thou doest, for this Man is a Roman. So God is very tender of these kind of Men, they are his Jewels, his Treasure, take heed how you use them.