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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.
2. An Overly sense of their Duty, and belief of the World to come. Temporaries have but a taste of heavenly Doctrine, Heb. 6.4. a light tincture; the act of their Faith is not so intense and serious as to set them a work with all life and diligence, or to enable them to Judge impartially, whether they are able to bear the coming of Christ yea or no. Presumption is the Child of Ignorance and Incogitancy: they do not consider of the strictness of the Gospel-law, or the Impartiality of the last days Account; there is but a notional, sleight, superficial, uneffectual apprehension of these things. An Ignorant person is fool-hardy, he doth not weigh the danger: 'Tis not the greatness of our Confidence, but the acuteness of our Sense.
2. An Overly sense of their Duty, and belief of the World to come. Temporaries have but a taste of heavenly Doctrine, Heb. 6.4. a light tincture; the act of their Faith is not so intense and serious as to set them a work with all life and diligence, or to enable them to Judge impartially, whether they are able to bear the coming of Christ yea or no. Presumption is the Child of Ignorance and Incogitancy: they do not consider of the strictness of the Gospel-law, or the Impartiality of the last dayes Account; there is but a notional, sleight, superficial, uneffectual apprehension of these things. An Ignorant person is fool-hardy, he doth not weigh the danger: 'Tis not the greatness of our Confidence, but the acuteness of our Sense.
3. Want of searching, or taking the course whereby we may be undeceived: Jer. 8.6. No man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Yea when searched, and their natural face showed them, Jam. 1.23, 24; they will not search and try their ways. A Temporary is seldom discovered to himself, 'till it be too late; but you may find him by these notes, usually he is slothful, he is not a laborious Christian; sound exercise maketh us feel our Condition; he is not self-searching, he doth not look into himself, he smothereth those misgivings of Heart which he hath, and will not consider the Case, or return upon himself. If they do not search, they cannot know themselves, if they should search, they do not like themselves; they choose the latter.