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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.
5. Carnal Complacency. The peace and pleasure which you live upon, is fetched more from the world than from God, and Heaven; and you live in quietness of mind, not so much from the belief of the love of God in Christ, and the hope of Heaven, as because you feel your selves well in your bodily estate, and live at ease and in prosperity in the world, and have something grateful to the flesh, Luk. 12.19, 20, 21. Oh! that soul is in a dangerous condition, when the World is so pleasing and lovely to it, that it can take contentment and delight in it without God, or apart from God. To many worldly prosperity is so sweet, that it can keep them quiet under the guilt of wilful sins. When you have your hearts desire for a while, you can forget Eternity, or bear those thoughts with security, which otherwise would amaze your Souls.
5. Carnal Complacency. The peace and pleasure which you live upon, is fetched more from the world than from God, and Heaven; and you live in quietness of mind, not so much from the belief of the love of God in Christ, and the hope of Heaven, as because you feel your selves well in your bodily estate, and live at ease and in prosperity in the world, and have something grateful to the flesh, Luk. 12.19, 20, 21. Oh! that soul is in a dangerous condition, when the World is so pleasing and lovely to it, that it can take contentment and delight in it without God, or apart from God. To many worldly prosperity is so sweet, that it can keep them quiet under the guilt of wilfull sins. When you have your hearts desire for a while, you can forget Eternity, or bear those thoughts with security, which otherwise would amaze your Souls.
Secondly, Motives.