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A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton…
A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton in two parts : the first containing XXVII sermons on the twenty fifth chapter of St. Matthew, XLV on the seventeenth chapter of St. John, and XXIV on the sixth chapter of the Epistle of the Romans : Part II, containing XLV sermons on the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, and XL on the fifth chapter of the second Epistle to the Corinthians : with alphabetical tables to each chapter, of the principal matters therein contained.
London: printed by J. Astwood for Jonathan Robinson, 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.
USE, Oh take heed of this Evil. Mark 13.26. Watch, lest the Lord cometh suddenly, and he find you sleeping. Would you have Christ come and find you in this case?
VSE, Oh take heed of this Evil. Mark 13.26. Watch, lest the Lord cometh suddenly, and he finde you sleeping. Would you have Christ come and find you in this case?
(1.) Some are wholly in a state of spiritual Sleep. To them the Lord speaketh, Eph. 5.14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead; and Christ shall give thee light. And of such the Apostle speaks, 1 Cor. 15.3, 4. Awake to righteousness, ⟨p. 29⟩and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 'Tis all reason, and more than time, that you should thoroughly rouse up your selves from the condition of sin wherein you have gone. 'Tis a shame such should be among Christians; such as snort still upon the bed of Security, when the light of the Gospel shineth round about them. Oh! when God calleth, Awake, and rise from the dead; if not, God may punish you by your own sin. One of his heaviest judgments is a Spirit of slumber, and deep sleep, Rom. 11.8. And then what will the end of it be? you may sleep, but your damnation sleepeth not, 2 Pet. 2.3. Certainly we should commiserate the case of such, especially if they be related to us; and seek to awaken them from the sleep of sin, that they may be brought home to Christ. Oh poor careless Creatures! they fear not God, nor think of his wrath, nor make preparation to stand before the Son of Man at his Coming.