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A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer
A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer by ... Thomas Manton.
London: printed by J.D., 1684
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. A Day of Reckoning will come, when God will put the Bond in Suit, and all shall be called to an Account. Sometimes God reckoneth with Sinners (in part) in this World, but surely in the next. Death is but the Summons to come to an Account with God: Luke 16. 2. Give an Account of thy Stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer Steward. That Passage of the Parable is applicable to Death;—That when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting Habitations, ver. 9. When the Soul is turned out of Doors, when it is cited to appear before the Tribunal of God, then we give up our Account. But especially at the great Day: Rev. 20. 12. And I saw the Dead, small and great, stand before God; and the Books were opened; that is, the Book of Conscience, and the ⟨p. 347⟩Book of God's Remembrance. There are two Books that are written within and without, upon which all our Actions are stamped; they are now closed, in a great measure we know not what is in these great Books. One of the Books, that of Conscience, is in our own keeping, yet we cannot deface and blot it out. These Books at that Day will be opened; Conscience, by the Power of God, shall be extended to the Recognition of all our Ways. Conscience writes, when it speaks not: Many times it doth not smite for Sins we are guilty of; but there stands the Debt charged, upon which we shall be responsible.
4. A Day of Reckoning will come, when God will put the Bond in Suit, and all shall be called to an Account. Sometimes God reckoneth with Sinners (in part) in this World, but surely in the next. Death is but the Summons to come to an Account with God: Luke 16. 2. Give an Account of thy Stewardship, for thou mayest be no longer Steward. That Passage of the Parable is applicable to Death;—That when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting Habitations, ver. 9. When the Soul is turned out of Doors, when it is cited to appear before the Tribunal of God, then vve give up our Account. But especially at the great Day: Rev. 20. 12. And I saw the Dead, small and great, stand before God; and the Books were opened; that is, the Book of Conscience, and the