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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.
3. Tedious irksomeness in Gods service: They grow weary of the ways of God. Mal. 1.13. Behold what a weariness is it? Amos 8.5. When will the new Moons be over, and the Sabbath past? Shall God do so great things for us in Christ, and shall any thing which God hath commanded be grievous to us? How unkind is this? neither have we an hard Master, nor hath he enjoined us tedious work; but all our duties have a sweetness in them: Micah 6.3. Do not my words do good? You carry it so as if God did not deal well with his people, or were not easy to be served. His Commands are not grievous, and his Yoke is easy; Trials sent by him not above measure, his Corrections not above our deserving; therefore why should we snuff at his service? Weariness and repining at Gods service is an ill sign. God loveth and requireth a willing people. This weariness, though it doth not make us wholly abandon Gods service, yet it makes us slight it, and mind it no more than how to get it over any way. Oh take heed then of growing weary of Religion, and attending on the duties thereof; to look upon these as distractions, or matters by the By, or interruptions of the work we would be upon. They are lead much by sense and carnality, that esteem nothing but what yieldeth a pleasure to sense, or gratifieth the outward Man.
3. Tedious irksomeness in Gods service: They grow weary of the wayes of God. Mal. 1.13. Behold what a weariness is it? Amos 8.5. When will the new Moons be over, and the Sabbath past? Shall God do so great things for us in Christ, and shall any thing which God hath commanded be grievous to us? How unkind is this? neither have we an hard Master, nor hath he enjoyned us tedious work; but all our duties have a sweetness in them: Micah 6.3. Do not my words do good? You carry it so as if God did not deal well with his people, or were not easie to be served. His Commands are not grievous, and his Yoke is easie; Tryals sent by him not above measure, his Corrections not above our deserving; therefore why should we snuff at his service? Weariness and repining at Gods service is an ill sign. God loveth and requireth a willing people. This weariness, though it doth not make us wholly abandon Gods service, yet it makes us slight it, and mind it no more than how to get it over any way. Oh take heed then of growing weary of Religion, and attending on the duties thereof; to look upon these as distractions, or matters by the By, or interruptions of the work we would be upon. They are lead much by sense and carnality, that esteem nothing but what yieldeth a pleasure to sense, or gratifyeth the outward Man.