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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.) Your Happiness is left merely as on your own Consent: God offereth his Grace to you as well as to others, Isa. 55.1. Ho every one that thirsteth! come to the waters and drink: Revel. 20.22. Whosoever will, &c. If you refuse it, you wrong your own Souls, Pro. 8.36. forsake your own Mercies, Jonah 2.8. And if you miss of Christ, and be shut out of Heaven, 'tis by your own default. You have none to blame but your selves, if you do not enter into Covenant with God, and so qualify your selves for the great blessings and favours thereof.
(2.) Your Happiness is left meerly as on your own Consent: God offereth his Grace to you as well as to others, Isa. 55.1. Ho every one that thirsteth! come to the waters and drink: Revel. 20.22. Whosoever will, &c. If you refuse it, you wrong your own Souls, Pro. 8.36. forsake your own Mercies, Jonah 2.8. And if you miss of Christ, and be shut out of Heaven, 'tis by your own default. You have none to blame but your selves, if you do not enter into Covenant with God, and so qualifie your selves for the great blessings and favours thereof.
(3.) Consider how much others have done for you in a way of Means, though they can do nothing in a way of merit. You have received as much benefit by others, as can rationally be expected; you were born of Christian Parents, by them dedicated to God, and trained up in his fear; and now, after all this, when you come to stand upon your own bottom, you wrest your selves out of the arms of Grace: your obstinate refusing seriously and heartily to enter into personal Covenant with God, will exclude you out out of Heaven: You are not moved by the examples of the word, and self-denying Christians. If you never try to bring your Heart to consent to the Lords terms, you will find your Oil to seek when you should use it, at the Bridegrooms coming.