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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 USE, Is to excite us; Phil. 2.13, 14. Forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching to the things that are before: I press towards the mark of the high prize of God, in Christ Jesus: You have not answered your holy rule, nor done things worthy of your blessed hope, nor answerable to the great obligations laid upon you, nor becoming the glorious Salvation which you expect: if these things were well thought of, you would see a need of making a speedy addition to your stock every day: Oh then as to the internal habits of Grace, we beseech you let your Love abound more and more, Phil. 1.9. and as to the external acts of Obedience, 1 Thes. 4.1. As ye have received of us how to walk, and how to please God, so you would abound more and more: Let your Vessel be fuller, and your Lamps burn brighter; you owe God a thousand times more than ever yet you have payed him, he hath both deserved and required more at your hand; you cannot make out your Gospel qualification of sincerity, unless there be a lamenting of defects, and a striving after perfection.
2 VSE, Is to excite us; Phil. 2.13, 14. Forgetting those things that are behind, and reaching to the things that are before: I press towards the mark of the high prize of God, in Christ Jesus: You have not answered your holy rule, nor done things worthy of your blessed hope, nor answerable to the great obligations laid upon you, nor becoming the glorious Salvation which you expect: if these things were well thought of, you would see a need of making a speedy addition to your stock every day: Oh then as to the internal habits of Grace, we beseech you let your Love abound more and more, Phil. 1.9. and as to the external acts of Obedience, 1 Thes. 4.1. As ye have received of us how to walk, and how to please God, so you would abound more and more: Let your Vessel be fuller, and your Lamps burn brighter; you owe God a thousand times more than ever yet you have payed him, he hath both deserved and required more at your hand; you cannot make out your Gospel qualification of sincerity, unless there be a lamenting of defects, and a striving after perfection.