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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.) Such a coming is necessary, that God may fit us with all kind of Arguments against sin, and so a restraint will be put upon the heart against it: many times sin and wickedness is acted in secret, Eccles. 12.14. God will bring every work into the Judgment, with every secret thought, whether it be good or evil: And 1 Cor. 4.5. Christ will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the Counsels of the Heart. Many make no Conscience of secret sins, and if they make Conscience of Acts, yet not of thoughts; yet according to Christs Theology, Malice is Heart-murder, lustful inclinations Heart-adultery, Mind-imaginations are Heart-Idolatry: There may be a great deal of evil in a discontented thought against Providence, Psa. 73.22. He that sinneth secretly, is conscious to himself that he doth evil, and therefore seeketh a veil and covering: Men are unjust in secret, unclean in secret, envious in secret, declaim against Gods Children in secret, neglect Duty in secret, sensual in secret, afraid that men should know it, yet not afraid of the great God: Man cannot damn us, man cannot fill our Consciences with everlasting burnings. Now that we may be ashamed to commit those sins before God, the day of Judgment is appointed to set these sins in order before us, Psa. 50.22. I will reprove thee, and set thy sins in order before thee.
(3.) Such a coming is necessary, that God may fit us with all kind of Arguments against sin, and so a restraint will be put upon the heart against it: many times sin and wickedness is acted in secret, Eccles. 12.14. God will bring every work into the Judgment, with every secret thought, whether it be good or evil: And 1 Cor. 4.5. Christ will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the Counsels of the Heart. Many make no Conscience of secret sins, and if they make Conscience of Acts, yet not of thoughts; yet according to Christs Theology, Malice is Heart-murther, lustful inclinations Heart-adultery, Mind-imaginations are Heart-Idolatry: There may be a great deal of evil in a discontented thought against Providence,